Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: fix ML-STA authentication timeout on QCC2072

[Jeff Johnson]

On Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0800, Miaoqing Pan wrote:
> QCC2072 firmware interprets the MLO_LINK_ADD and MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE
> flags to control the link state during MLO vdev start. MLO_LINK_ADD
> indicates that a link is being added, while MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE specifies
> that the link should become active during the start.
> 
> When an association link is added without setting MLO_START_AS_ACTIVE,
> the firmware may transition the link into a suspended state. In this
> case, authentication frames transmitted by the host can be dropped,
> leading to repeated authentication retries and eventual timeout,
> for example:
>   wlp1s0: send auth to <AP> (try 1/3)
>   wlp1s0: send auth to <AP> (try 2/3)
>   wlp1s0: send auth to <AP> (try 3/3)
>   wlp1s0: authentication with <AP> timed out
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] wifi: ath12k: fix ML-STA authentication timeout on QCC2072
      commit: 3567d90721a8a51f051bcea3937febddc973e14c

Best regards,
-- 
Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>