[PATCH 0/2] wpa_supplicant: Fix VHT/HE status indications

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 09:26:48PM +0800, Chung-Hsien Hsu wrote:
> This series updates the legacy STATUS indications for VHT/HE
> connections.
> 
> Patch 1 fixes ieee80211ac=1 so that it is reported only for actual
> VHT/IEEE 802.11ac associations instead of being set based only on the
> presence of a VHT Capabilities element in the Association Response.
> 
> Patch 2 adds a corresponding ieee80211ax=1 STATUS indication for actual
> HE/IEEE 802.11ax associations, while excluding EHT associations.

Why would this be done? That feels misleading and an unexpected change
to existing users of that information. An HE STA is also a VHT STA in
the 5 GHz band and an EHT STA is also an HE STA as far as the IEEE
802.11 standard is concerned.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA