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Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2620:15c:9d:2:8598:2b3d:6e11:4163]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id z5-20020a170903018500b001ddc83fda95sm5854661plg.186.2024.03.20.14.13.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:13:24 -0700 From: Brian Norris To: David Lin Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvalo@kernel.org" , "francesco@dolcini.it" , Pete Hsieh , "rafael.beims" , Francesco Dolcini Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] wifi: mwifiex: add code to support host mlme Message-ID: References: <20240306020053.18054-1-yu-hao.lin@nxp.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Hi David, On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 02:20:56AM +0000, David Lin wrote: > > From: Brian Norris > > I'm not sure if this has been asked/answered before, but are > > the MLME/WPA3 limitations exclusively tied to the firmware support ("V2 Key > > API")? Or are there hardware limitations on top (e.g., some firmware might get > > "V2 Key API" but still be unsupported on a given chip family)? Could other > > chips chips theoretically get this feature-set in the future? > > If firmware reported support of V2 Key API, then host mlme can be > supported without issues. There is a flag 'host_mlme' in struct > 'mwifiex_sdio_device' to indicate if host mlme should be supported. If > this flag is set, driver will still check if firmware can support V2 > Key API. If firmware can't support it, host mlme will be disabled. Thanks! If I can distill the answer: it's just a software/firmware limitation, and not a hardware limitation. The hardware limitation flag in this series is added just out of caution. Brian