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

[Deepti Panchal]

Hi Jouni,

Rather than refusing to start the AP, my hostapd patch would throw an error message indicating that HE configuration is not supported and would instead start the AP in HT/VHT configuration.
This would result in a seamless end user experience.

Does this approach seem to be fair ?

Thanks,
Deepti

-----Original Message-----
From: Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> 
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 00:09
To: Deepti Panchal <deepti.panchal at nxp.com>
Cc: hostap at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [EXT] [RESEND PATCH] Issue: Non-HE capable interface advertising HE

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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