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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