[EXT] [RESEND PATCH] Issue: Non-HE capable interface advertising HE

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:33:38PM +0000, Deepti Panchal wrote:
> My patch will override the user config in case the hardware does not support HE configuration.
> An error message will also be shown in the debug logs indicating the hardware is not HE supported.
> 
> Can you  please elaborate on what you mean by:
> "I would have expected the configuration to be rejected instead of being silently ignored"

I would expect hostapd to refuse to start AP operation with invalid
configuration instead of modifying the configuration in this manner to
ignore that the configuration requested HE to be enabled.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA