Raising DEFAULT_BSS_MAX_COUNT

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 11:55 -0500, Mitchell Augustin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It is not uncommon now for very dense areas to have more than 200
> access points. With the DEFAULT_BSS_MAX_COUNT set to 200, we have
> observed that some devices in such areas can fail to detect even the
> nearest APs reliably. This seems to be resolved when the value is
> sufficiently high to list all APs in range.
> 
> Has there been any discussion about raising this default value in
> wpa_supplicant, given the increasing prevalence of AP-dense areas?

Not that I know of, but FWIW the kernel has a (default but never
changed) limit of 1000, so having a so far lower limit in wpa_s might
really not make much sense.

johannes