Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: add p2p device type support

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:22 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> >
> > When a driver advertises p2p device support,
> > mac80211 will handle it, but internally it will
> > rewrite the interface type to STA/AP rather than
> > P2P-STA/GO since otherwise a lot of paths need
> > to be touched that are otherwise identical. A
> > p2p boolean tells drivers whether or not a given
> > interface will be used for p2p or not.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> While at it can you add a is_beaconing_iftype() or something, that
> should reduce code and make it easier to check for these modes.

Err, it doesn't really change for drivers, since it's still AP/IBSS --
since GO is just an AP subtype internally. And anyway, I wouldn't use it
internally, so does it really belong into this patch?

johannes