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

[Wen Gong]

On 5/10/2023 7:24 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 19:06 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>> So will you plan to do something to let wpa_s/userspace app
>> active/deactive links?
>>
>> Or you already have implemented that?
>>
> No plans right now, and honestly not sure what the right thing even is.
OK. For "advertise some level of link-concurrency to userspace", do you 
have any plan/idea?
>
> johannes