[PATCH] Revert "wpa_supplicant: Send EAPOL frames over nl80211 where available"

[Krishna Chaitanya]

> On Mon, 31 Jul 2023, 21:41 Fabio Estevam, <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Chaitanya,
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>> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 4:09 PM Krishna Chaitanya
>> <chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I have spent some more time looking into this, but couldn't reproduce
>> > the issue, but I have a
>> > a couple of suggestions:
>> >
>> > 1. disable HW crypto in ath10k, cryptmode=1 + frame_mode=0
>> > (noencrypt=1 for EAPoL, so,
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>> I passed the suggested parameters via the kernel command line:
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>> ath10k-core.cryptmode=1 ath10k-core.frame_mode=0
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>> , but the result was the same.
>
Okay, thanks, so, encryption might not be the problem.
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>>
>> >     if ath10k doesn't handle well, it can cause packet drops)
>> > 2. disable WMM_AC (this shouldn't cause any drops at STA side as in
>> > the worst case mac80211 fallbacks
>> >     BK, but AP might reject, so, worth a try).
>>
>> I am not sure how to disable WMM_AC. Care to explain?
>
Sorry, this would be a setting in the AP web UI.
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>>
>> Thanks