Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: reject station addition if AP or MLO link is inactive

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2026-07-27 at 11:22 +0200, Slawomir Stepien wrote:
> 
> I think we do not have. I'm looking at the struct wireless_dev fields and I see that there is just
> info about what the configuration should be, not info about what is the current state of the device.
> I also do not see any callback in struct cfg80211_ops that might help to get such info. If I'm wrong
> then please correct my observation!

I think we maintain wdev->links[].ap.beacon_interval?

> Beside this, do we think that all devices would always need this rejection? What if firmware of
> these devices would benefit from *lack* of such rejection? Just thinking aloud, not that I know such
> devices.

I don't think it should be legal in the userspace API, and even if they
did, we'd have to add a flag to let hostapd know about it, and then when
(probably never) we did that, we could change the checks along with the
API.

johannes