Re: [PATCH wl-next 4/4] wifi: brcmfmac: support AP isolation to restrict reachability between stations

Arend van Spriel <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:56:19 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.brcm80211,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/17/2025 12:41 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 8/17/2025 11:41 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> From: Wright Feng <[email protected]>
>>
>> hostapd & wpa_supplicant userspace daemons exposes an AP mode specific
>> config file parameter "ap_isolate" to the user, which is used to control
>> low-level bridging of frames between the stations associated in the BSS.
>>
>> In driver, handle this user setting in the newly defined cfg80211_ops
>> function brcmf_cfg80211_change_bss() by enabling "ap_isolate" IOVAR in
>> the firmware.
>>
>> In AP mode, the "ap_isolate" value from the cfg80211 layer represents,
>>   0 = allow low-level bridging of frames between associated stations
>>   1 = restrict low-level bridging of frames to isolate associated 
>> stations
>> -1 = do not change existing setting
> 
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> See that auto-delegation in Patchwork is working, but if you don't mind 
> I bounce this one back to you as I feel being a bit too involved in this 
> one.

Nevermind. Let me first fix the checkpatch/build issues :-(

Gr. AvS