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Subject: Re: Flag for detecting 802.11r Fast BSS Transition support
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
        Matthew Wang <matthewmwang@google.com>
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On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 14:02 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> + Johannes
> 
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 12:06:50PM -0700, Matthew Wang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm wondering if there is a flag for detecting firmware/driver support
> > for FT. It seems like checking for SME support is a pretty good proxy
> > for this, but there is a non-mac80211 driver that can do FT as well
> > (ath/wil6210). It would be great if anyone knows of a feature flag
> > specifically for FT.
> 
> I chatted with Johannes, and he agreed that there was no such flag
> today. It also sounded like he was open to adding one, even if it's
> several years too late.

Yeah, well, hindsight is 20/20. I think I've tried to do better in
reviews wrt. feature flags or some other way of discovering it, but I
guess it's never going to be perfect.

Can you submit a patch?

johannes