[PATCH 00/16] hostapd: scale up MLO flows

Aditya Kumar Singh quic_adisi at quicinc.com
Wed Mar 27 19:55:42 PDT 2024


On 3/27/24 22:35, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 11:09:31PM +0530, Aditya Kumar Singh wrote:
>> This series extends the basic MLO support to properly create/handle/remove
>> MLD links. At the same time, it also makes the code flow scalable to later
>> support multiple co-hosted MLDs as well various other features.
>>
>> Aditya Kumar Singh (15):
>>    tests: MLD: remove mld_id config
>>    hostapd: MLO: add separate MLD level structure
>>    hostapd: MLO: use MLD struct for MLD level info
>>    hostapd: MLO: assign link ID during BSS creation
>>    hostapd: MLO: clean up MLD when not required any further
>>    hostapd: MLO: cache hostapd_data context in per link bss struct
>>    hostapd: MLO: remove redundant put_freq call in set_ap
>>    hostapd: MLO: re-factor nl80211_remove_links() function
>>    hostpad: MLO: nl80211: remove links while removing the interface
>>    hostapd: MLO: add support to remove the link before removing interface
>>    hostapd: MLO: refresh other iface beacons when one iface gets
>>      disabled/enabled
>>    hostapd: MLO: fix advertisement of MLD capabilities
>>    hostapd: MLO: de-initialize/disable link BSS properly
>>    hostapd: MLD: add support to remove link station from AP
>>    hostapd: MLD: remove restriction of disabling first link bss at last
>>
>> Sriram R (1):
>>    hostapd: MLO: avoid usage of mld_id as user configuration
> 
> Thanks, applied with cleanup.
> 
> PS.
> 
> Whenever the commit message would include something like "While at it,
> lets do this other things", that is most likely a good indication that
> the patch should be split into two where that "while at it" part is in
> the second patch.. In particular, whenever refactoring functions, no
> functionality changes should be included in the patch. Those will just
> add more work for me to revert things partially to figure out what
> exactly happen and to confirm that refactoring was done correctly before
> being able to apply the patch.
> 

Sure Jouni, will take care in future patches. Thanks for the inputs :)



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