hostapd: enable 802.11be, SAE-PK, OWE, SuiteB, ACS, and MBO support

hostapd has supported IEEE 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) for over three years. Given
the growing market demand for Wi-Fi 7, it is now an appropriate time to
enable support for IEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput (EHT). Note
that CONFIG_IEEE80211AX is a mandatory prerequisite for setting
CONFIG_IEEE80211BE.

This patch also enables the following build-time options in defconfig,
all of which have no runtime impact:
SAE Public Key (SAE_PK)
Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE)
Suite B and Suite B 192
Automatic Channel Selection (ACS)
Multiband Operation (MBO)

Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing.pan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig
index 7f8e0b9eaa..b8745024d9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/hostapd/hostapd/defconfig
@@ -142,10 +142,35 @@ CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y
 # IEEE 802.11ac (Very High Throughput) support
 CONFIG_IEEE80211AC=y
 
+# IEEE 802.11be EHT support
+# CONFIG_IEEE80211AX is mandatory for setting CONFIG_IEEE80211BE.
+CONFIG_IEEE80211BE=y
+
 # Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), WPA3-Personal
 CONFIG_SAE=y
 
+# SAE Public Key, WPA3-Personal
+CONFIG_SAE_PK=y
+
 # Remove debugging code that is printing out debug messages to stdout.
 # This can be used to reduce the size of the hostapd considerably if debugging
 # code is not needed.
 #CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG=y
+
+# Automatic Channel Selection
+# This will allow hostapd to pick the channel automatically when channel is set
+# to "acs_survey" or "0". Eventually, other ACS algorithms can be added in
+# similar way.
+CONFIG_ACS=y
+
+# Multiband Operation support
+# These extensions facilitate efficient use of multiple frequency bands
+# available to the AP and the devices that may associate with it.
+CONFIG_MBO=y
+
+# Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE)
+CONFIG_OWE=y
+
+# Enable support for SuiteB
+CONFIG_SUITEB=y
+CONFIG_SUITEB192=y