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

[Matthias May]

On 25.12.22 17:27, Deepti Panchal wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi

I personally and professionally would not like something like that.
When i configure something i expect it to be exactly what i configured.
Auto-magically changing what is running to something that is not 
specified just leads to unexpected surprises later on...

BR
Matthias

PS:
If you want to hide config errors from your endusers,
why don't you adjust the code that generated the config for
hostapd to auto-magically mangle the hostapd-config?