[PATCH] hostapd: allow disabling background radar

[Ben Greear]

On 4/16/22 6:51 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 02:54:02PM -0700, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
>> To work around buggy drivers and/or for any other user preference.
> 
> Are there any known issues with drivers advertising this capability but
> not working? Why would a user want to disable this? This type of a
> configuration parameter was there originally when this capability was
> introduced, but it got removed since there was no clear justification
> for adding the extra complexity. Has something changed recently to
> reconsider that earlier conclusion?
> 

The mt7915 driver mistakenly enables this feature for mt7915 radios from
asia-rf that do not have the hardware support for this feature.

And there is very little complexity added by my patch.  There are often
unforseen bugs in new features, I think it is good practice to allow
them to be disabled.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com