[PATCH 00/25] Add support for MultiBand Operation (MBO).
Peer, Ilan
ilan.peer at intel.com
Sun Feb 28 06:03:11 PST 2016
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jouni Malinen [mailto:j at w1.fi]
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 22:12
> To: Peer, Ilan
> Cc: hostap at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Add support for MultiBand Operation (MBO).
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 04:53:12PM +0200, Ilan Peer wrote:
> > Based on Wi-Fi MBO Technical Specification r17.
> >
> > The MBO specification provides the means for band steering, load
> > balancing and other procedures for MBO capable devices.
>
> Thanks! I applied this with cleanup and fixes as described in the earlier
> messages. For now, I removed the changes related to changing WNM BSS
> Transition Management behavior for in code that was not protected with
> CONFIG_MBO (i.e., the parts that would force the station to accept the
> request even if it could not really find another BSS). We can come back to
> those separately once there is better understanding what the spec really
> wants for this (and whether that is an acceptable default behavior for
> wpa_supplicant with/without CONFIG_MBO in the build).
>
This is going to be discussed in the next TTG meeting this week (but you probably already know about this :)).
> I extended AP side functionality to parse and track MBO STA information
> related to cellular data capability and non-preferred channels in hostapd.
> With this, it was easier to write some additional hwsim test cases to cover
> pretty much all the added functionality (and yes, this found some issues in
> non-pref chan command parsing which are now fixed..).
>
Thanks! I'll also send few fixes later today/tomorrow.
Regards,
Ilan.
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