[PATCH] hostapd: allow disabling background radar

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 07:18:08AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> The mt7915 driver mistakenly enables this feature for mt7915 radios from
> asia-rf that do not have the hardware support for this feature.

Has that been fixed in the driver already or is this a known, but not
fixed issue in an actually released kernel version?

> 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.

Every new configuration parameter makes things more complex. I don't
know how a normal user could easily figure out when to disable this
particular feature as an example. I don't think I would agree with it
being a good practice to provide an explicit user configuration
parameter for all new features. In fact, I'd highly prefer not to have
to do that for any new feature without a good justification. Whether
this particular case is a good justification depends on whether that
identified driver issue has made its way into commonly used kernel
releases. The most appropriate fix for this would obviously be to fix
the driver instead of providing user space workarounds that users would
need to manually figure out when to use.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA