[PATCH v3 3/3] WNM: Use standard BSS selection and enable abridged bit handling

[Benjamin Berg]

Hi,

On Wed, 2025-12-17 at 22:53 +0100, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> OK, see it. Older supplicant behave different, so new one need better
> BTM request.

Didn't look into it in-depth. But, I think we pretty much do not use
the preference value except for the special "0" value. This is not
really new though.

As far as I can tell, you did allow staying on the old AP (i.e.
preference of 1). So the behaviour you saw is still within the
specification, even if it might seem weird.

I guess with "better BTM request", you mean setting the preference to
zero. I believe that should make it work as expected.

Note that I have nothing against improving the logic to take the
preference value into account. That said, I do believe that is not a
trivial change and I kind of doubt that it actually helps much with AP
interoperability.

Benjamin

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> BR
> Janusz
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