[PATCH 10/27] wifi: mac80211: isolate driver from inactive links

[Wen Gong]

On 4/11/2023 3:38 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-04-04 at 11:28 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:
>> May I also add a field such as "u16 active_links_count" in struct
>> wiphy_iftype_ext_capab,
>> and add logic in function ieee80211_set_vif_links_bitmaps() for station
>> like this ?:
>> if (active_links_count && hweight16(links) <= active_links_count)
>>       then sdata->vif.active_links = links;
>>
> Also here, not sure it makes sense in cfg80211 level?
>
> Though I'm not sure what the idea here is at all - you can refuse to
> link switch etc, what would you use this for?
If I use ieee80211_set_active_links(),
then I need add BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC and key for 2nd link in lower-driver.

I would like to active all links while assoc,
then BSS_CHANGED_ASSOC and key will auto set for the 2nd link to 
lower-driver from mac80211.
>
> Then again, we haven't really designed out all the link selection stuff,
> do we want wpa_s to do it, driver to do it, etc.? Hence debugfs. So
> depending on what end up doing there, we will obviously need to
> advertise some level of link-concurrency to userspace.
>
> johannes