Re: [PATCH wireless-next v2 01/16] wifi: nl80211: Define Seamless Mobility Domain (SMD) device capability

[Pooventhiran G]

On 10/02/2026 12:11 pm, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-09-24 at 08:10 +0530, Pooventhiran G wrote:
>>
>> Subclause 37.16.11 defines an optional capability for the current AP
>> MLD to forward buffered downlink (DL) data frames for the non-AP MLD to
>> the target AP MLD.
> 
> I ... don't see how you would implement that by defining just a feature
> bit?! And you have no documentation for how it'd be implemented, nor any
> additional code in mac80211, though that would seem to be necessary
> given that it also queues frames?
> 
> IOW, "driver supports forwarding" doesn't make much sense without other
> mechanisms _somewhere_, and then those should be described (perhaps in a
> new nl80211.h DOC: section, which is probably a good idea for the whole
> SMD AP-side anyway).
> 
> johannes

DL data forwarding is not supported yet in this series. I will clean this up
in v3, and will add this back when DL data forwarding support is upstreamed.