Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: support for P2P mgmt operations on station interface

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On 12/13/2011 11:32 PM, Aarthi Thiruvengadam wrote:
> This patch enables support for doing P2P management operations like device
> discovery on top of a station interface. After group formation, the station
> interface will become a P2P GO/client interface as the case may be.
> 
> This feature requires modifications to a couple of existing WMI structures and
> therefore new command ids and structures have been defined in order to be
> compatible with older firmware versions and other chips. The exception here is
> the wmi_connect_cmd. Adding a new field to the end of the structure will not
> cause any issues with previous firmware versions since firmware only checks for
> minimum length of the command. The other structures are of variable length,
> hence it was not possible to add new fields to the end. 
> 
> The new command ids have to be added to the end of enum wmi_cmd_id, so it has
> updated to match the firmware. 
> 
> The driver will support both the 'old' and the 'new' commands for a while by
> checking the firmware capabilities. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aarthi Thiruvengadam <athiruve@qca.qualcomm.com>

Thanks, applied.

Kalle