[PATCH 1/2] nl80211: add support to enable/disable bss color collision detection

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo at kernel.org
Thu Jan 19 10:36:15 PST 2023


> On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 15:52 +0100, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> > 
> > This may not be related, but the software color collision detection 
> > sends a netlink message for every colliding frame and it can hose up the 
> > system if the other network is very active.
> > 
> > Also, cfg80211_bss_color_notify() complains that the wdev lock isn't held.
> 
> Yay.
> 
> Lorenzo can you take a look at that?

It seems fine to me, I am just wondering if we need to forward the info to the
hw (if it supports hw color collision detection) if we just flip
collision_detection_enabled field in ieee80211_change_beacon().
What do you think?

Regards,
Lorenzo

> 
> johannes
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