Re: PR 297155 and PR 297184

On Sun, 30 Aug 2026, Kim Shrier wrote:

Hi,

> I am in the process of implementing HOSTAP mode in the
> LinuxKPI 802.11 compat layer.

Great.

Are you doing this "clean room"?

Do you have the code anywhere?


>   I discovered the two bugs
> mentioned in the subject while working on this code.
>
> On ath10k/QCA6174 hw3.2 I now have a WPA2-PSK AP
> that associates real clients (including an iPhone) at HT rates,
> rekeys the GTK, and keeps power-saving clients associated
> across sleep; it's 2.4GHz-only so far, VHT is plumbed but
> untested, and I'm chasing one panic that looks like an upstream
> ath10k tx-pause locking issue rather than something in my code.


At least in STA mode it currently suffers from a (*set_bitrate_mask)
issue as well with LinuxKPI.

I think I also still have small a cleanup patch not comitted to
FreeBSD yet but I can go and look. Yes:
% git diff --stat main sys/contrib/dev/athk/ath10k/
  sys/contrib/dev/athk/ath10k/pci.c | 10 ----------
  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)


> I have patches submitted with the PRs.  I don’t want to be an
> irritation to anyone but I would like to get these PRs reviewed
> and if acceptable, merged in to current.  The code I am working
> on depends on these bugs being fixed.

I believe https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297155
is addressed already (or being).  The review is approved (not yours).
There's more to fix.

I'll have a look at the other one.

If you Cc: wireless on these patches or add me directly to LinuxKPI
802.11 changes they'll go noticed.  Most of LinuxKPI PRs either get
assigned to either drm (x11) or wireless these days.  It may be the
time to finally get a dedicated entity for that.

/bz

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