Re: [PATCH wireless-next v3] wifi: brcmfmac: log the firmware status when a connect fails

[Arend van Spriel]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:55:26 +0900, Ryohei Hashimoto wrote:
> brcmf_bss_connect_done() receives the firmware event in @e but discards it
> on the failure path.  Every failed connect is reported to cfg80211 as
> WLAN_STATUS_AUTH_TIMEOUT (16), whatever the firmware actually said, so
> userspace only ever sees:
> 
>   wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-ASSOC-REJECT bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 status_code=16

[...]
 
> The status reported to cfg80211 is left alone; changing it would alter what
> userspace sees.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/issues/38
> [2] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1829
> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Arend

> Signed-off-by: Ryohei Hashimoto <laurel.medalist12@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)