Re: [PATCH 01/15] wiphy: add driver quirk for the colocated scan flag

Hi James,

On 8/22/25 2:51 PM, James Prestwood wrote:
> Some drivers do not handle the colocated scan flag very well and this
> results in BSS's not being seen in scans. This of course results in
> very poor behavior.
> 
> This has been seen on ath11k specifically but after some
> conversations [1] on the linux-wireless mailing list others have
> reported issues with iwlwifi acting similarly. Since there are many
> hardware variants that use both ath11k and iwlwifi this new quirk
> isn't being forced to those drivers, but let users configure IWD to
> disable the flag if needed.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/[email protected]/

So why does dropping the colocated flag help?  You have a 2/5 G network that 
isn't related to the 6G network at all, meaning that there is no RNR element. 
Hence 6G must be scanned passively on social channels.  If you don't add the 
colocated flag, the end result should be the same, no?  Or is colocated flag 
forcing the use of RNR element only?

> ---
>   src/wiphy.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++------
>   src/wiphy.h |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

Anyway, I went ahead and applied patches 1-4.

Regards,
-Denis