On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 1:02 PM Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 00:35 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> >
> > Is this supposed to work at all? AFAICS, in hwsim channel matching
> > checks are only done in non-mediumd path (no_nl), and wmediumd also
> > doesn't have any checks? So, hostapd responds to all probe requests in all
> > channels. Am I missing something?
>
> Hmm. Interesting observation, I wasn't aware of that.
>
> That certainly explains the situation though - on 2.4 GHz we'd prefer
> using the DS Element, and thus not use the scan result, while on 5 GHz
> we assume that the reported RX frequency is correct (there's no channel
> overlap).
>
> Still doesn't explain why it should work in 4.17 and not in 4.18, there
> aren't a lot of wifi changes there at all.
Yes the git log also doesn't show any changes in this area.
>
> I guess we should fix that in hwsim, anyone esle want to? :-)
I can give it a try to move the channel matching logic to common
code for both nl and no_nl.
