On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 15:12 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:

On 2021-08-27 14:55, Johannes Berg wrote:

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On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 14:53 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:

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Well, there's an existing place in this function that uses
cfg80211_find_ext_ie(), and various uses of ieee80211_bss_get_ie(), so
it feels like if we're going to do the full parsing, we should switch
all the existing "look up an element" to also use the parsed data
instead.

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ok.
so it ha 2 way to change, right?
1.
change ieee802_11_parse_elems() to ieee80211_bss_get_ie()

No why?

I think we should make a first patch (that doesn't add TPE yet) that
changes the function to ieee80211_parse_elems() and removes all the
ieee80211_bss_get_ie() / cfg80211_find_ext_ie() calls in favour of just
parsing once, and then looking at the elements there.

Then your TPE patch becomes trivial since the elems are already there?

this patch still needed, because the lower driver need the info.
and this patch is save the info to "struct ieee80211_bss_conf *bss_conf" 
and
pass it to lower driver.

Of course, but you don't have to deal with parsing etc. in that patch
then.

johannes