Re: [PATCH rtw-next v3 2/2] wifi: rtw88: support channel switch in AP mode

[Mehmet Fide <mehmet.fide@gmail.com>]

Hi Luka,

On 2026-10-05 Luka Gejak wrote:
> so an association during the countdown moves the count a second time in
> the same interval. Can this download skip the page while a switch is
> announced, the way set_key does?

Yes. v4 skips the download and the H2C on association while a switch is
announced; the next countdown download carries the pages of the new
station. Of the remaining callers, the WoWLAN ones run after the
countdown work is cancelled and the beacon change is the countdown
itself.

> so the AP leaves the channel during the countdown anyway. Can the check
> move above the feature test?

Yes, v4 takes the mutex first and refuses the scan before the offload
test and the scanning flag, so firmware without scan offload gets -EBUSY
as well instead of a software scan.

Both verified on an RTL8821CU, whose firmware has no scan offload: a
scan during a countdown returned 32 BSSs with v3 and -EBUSY with v4,
and an association that completes inside a count-2 countdown hits the
mac80211 warning about the counter reaching 0 with v3, not with v4.

Best regards,
Mehmet