BPCC in per-STA profile in link reconfiguration response

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Jul 17 08:51:39 PDT 2025


Hi,

> As you mentioned, this commit was initially intended to fix ML Probe 
> Response, which is why section 9.4.2.322.2.4 was referenced.

Right, makes sense.

> However, after reviewing section 35.3.6.4 — which says that the
> Per-STA Profile in the ML Reconfiguration Response should be the
> same as in the Reassociation Response — I agree that it makes sense
> to include the BPCC in this case as well.

OK, so I guess we should have a hostapd patch to remove the comment
there about not including it. Do you want to do that?

> > 
> >   2) Are you aware of any APs that don't include it, which would mean
> >      regardless of that, mac80211 should accept both?
> 
> As far as I know, I'm not aware of any APs in the market that don't 
> include it.

OK, cool, so at least we don't have any knowledge of this being
necessary.

> Maybe people in community can comment on this. If such APs do exist, we 
> can consider accepting both.

I don't know either, and the only reason for now would be to accept it
only because of the spec inconsistency, but I guess we can leave it for
now.

Thanks!

johannes



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