From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>,
Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>,
Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>, Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>,
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>,
Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>,
Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>,
Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.5] cfg80211: enforce lack of interface combinations
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:27:38 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120315085736.GB17590@vasanth-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331801488.3432.2.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:51:28AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 14:12 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:06:03PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> > >
> > > My grand plan to allow drivers to gradually move over
> > > to advertising virtual interface combinations and only
> > > enforce with drivers that do want it enforced doesn't
> > > seem to be working out, only Christian ever added the
> > > advertising (to carl9170), nobody else did.
> > >
> > > Begin enforcing combinations in cfg80211 so that users
> > > can rely on the information reported about a device.
> >
> > This breaks ath6kl AP mode and P2P, is it expected that the driver
> > needs to register the combination (?) even it supports a single
> > interface?
>
> Kalle tells me that ath6kl does support multiple virtual interfaces, but
> if it didn't then it wouldn't have to register combinations.
>
> I suspect you're using
> driver_param=use_p2p_group_interface=1
> in wpa_supplicant?
Actually, I verified only AP mode, since it affects any sort of change interface,
I mentioned P2P as well. AP is expected to work without any issue right?.
Vasanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-15 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-13 15:06 [PATCH 3.5] cfg80211: enforce lack of interface combinations Johannes Berg
2012-03-15 8:42 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-03-15 8:51 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-15 8:57 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
2012-03-15 8:58 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-15 9:02 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-03-15 9:11 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-15 9:23 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-03-15 9:16 ` [PATCH 3.5 v2] " Johannes Berg
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