Re: [PATCH -next v2 00/12] wifi: cfg80211: consolidate cookie assignment for async ops

On Tue, 2026-07-28 at 16:45 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> NL80211_ATTR_COOKIE is a userspace-visible u64 that correlates an async
> nl80211 operation with its completion event. Three cfg80211 ops currently
> delegate cookie generation to the driver: remain_on_channel, mgmt_tx, and
> probe_peer. This produces inconsistent strategies across drivers: some us=
e
> an incrementing counter, some use get_random_u32(), some use a CID cast t=
o
> u64, and brcmfmac's mgmt_tx always assigned zero - which is arguably brok=
en
> since cfg80211 treats zero as an invalid cookie.

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Looks good to me, but I just finished merging for the day ;)

I'll let it soak for a while, and driver maintainers should have a
chance to review it as well, of course. We're in no hurry anyway...

Thanks! :)

johannes