Re: PR 297155 and PR 297184

On Mon, 31 Aug 2026, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

Hi,

> 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 would still be curious about this.
Feel free to reply privately as well.


>>   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 pushed that cleanup.


>> I have patches submitted with the PRs.  I don’t want to be an

I beleive both are fixed now and merged to stable/15.

Let us know if there's anything else.


/bz

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