[PATCH] supplicant: allow disabling MLO.

[Ben Greear]

On 10/28/23 1:55 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 04:36:00PM -0700, greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
>> MLO should be disabled in case EHT is disabled, and also add new
>> configurable to disable MLO regardless of EHT settings.
> 
> Agreed with the first part and that was what was already supposed to
> happen with disable_eht=1, but if that is not the case with all drivers,
> that should indeed be fixed.
> 
> As far as the second part is concerned, what is the use case for
> disabling MLO without EHT? There is an expectation for EHT to mandate
> use of MLO in practice.

For one thing, a currently available wifi-7 hardware/firmware crashes often
when you enable MLO with 2+ links (see my patch to fix MLD IE parsing).

And even in cases where it used a single MLO link and didn't crash, performance
was much worse than when MLO was disabled.

The MLO/MLD logic is too fragile at the moment, so it is good to be able to
disable it in case you just need a functional wifi on a wifi-7 radio.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com