[PATCH] nl80211: add extra-ies only if allowed by driver

[Jouni Malinen]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 08:50:31AM +0000, Sebastian Priebe wrote:
> Upgrading wpa_supplicant from 2.9 to 2.10 breaks broadcom-wl
> based adapters. The reason for it is hostapd tries to install additional
> IEs for scanning while the driver does not support this.
> 
> The kernel indicates the maximum number of bytes for additional scan IEs
> using the NL80211_ATTR_MAX_SCAN_IE_LEN attribute. Save this value and
> only add additional scan IEs in case the driver can accommodate these
> additional IEs.

Why are you sending the same patch from three years ago when that has
open comments[1] and this has already been addressed in other
commits that take into account those comments[2]?

(1)
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/hostap/patch/20220130192200.10883-1-mail@david-bauer.net/#2830567

(2)
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=66442d1bcbf2c06c29b55ff8930dbe7d46b60e98
https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=2fe7a2b80e9ebb7ed550d82e4d4661104b489791

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA