From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] carl9170: advertise interface combinations
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 01:28:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305329300.32461.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105140035.06559.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (sfid-20110514_003534_792599_E8DC06EE)
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 00:35 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> In order to provide multiple interfaces for a single device,
> the driver is now required to advertise all possible
> interface configurations to the stack.
Cool, thanks! Note that currently it's not yet required, but
whatever :-)
> with the standard firmware, iw now displays:
> [...]
> valid interface combinations:
> * #{ IBSS, managed, AP, P2P-client, P2P-GO } <= 2,
> total <= 2, #channels <= 1
Since mac80211 doesn't allow multiple IBSS interfaces, I think you
should leave that out. And I should probably make mac80211 complain if
it's advertised erroneously.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-13 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-13 22:35 [PATCH] carl9170: advertise interface combinations Christian Lamparter
2011-05-13 23:28 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-05-13 23:39 ` Christian Lamparter
2011-05-13 23:48 ` Johannes Berg
2011-05-14 0:42 ` [PATCH v2] " Christian Lamparter
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