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

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Jun 14 11:32:48 PDT 2023


On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 15:41 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:
> 
> May I add a new ops in struct ieee80211_ops? like this:
> 
> u16 active_links(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif vif, u16 
> new_links)"
> 
> then ieee80211_set_vif_links_bitmaps() call the ops to get the links for 
> station and set the sdata->vif.active_links with the return value from 
> lower driver,
> it means lower driver will dynamic select the links count at this moment.
> 
> If lower driver not register ops active_links, then keep current logic.
> 

I guess you can can send patches for whatever you want :)

But I have no idea what you're trying to do? Why would you need to have
a callback?

Was this for link selection in the driver? We should have a patch
somewhere that adds a BSS_CHANGE flag for when the valid links change,
so the driver can select others.

johannes



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