Re: [RFC v2] cfg80211: Android P2P-Device workaround

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 04/24/2013 12:52 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 13:11 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> +#ifndef CONFIG_CFG80211_ANDROID_P2P_HACK
>>>>   	if (WARN_ON(wdev->netdev))
>>>>   		return;
>>>> +#endif
>>>
>>> With my favorite kernel macro, config_enabled(), you could get rid of
>>> quite a lot of the ugly ifdefs.
>>
>> Yeah, but as long as this isn't going upstream I don't really want to
>> though since then it touches the code and is less obvious. Anyway we'll
>> see.
>
> Ah, makes send.
>
> FWIW, I think we should push this, and other wireless Android support,
> upstream. We should first get them to use upstream interfaces and then
> start fixing the problematic areas one by one.

I agree. Another big hurdle I see are the android driver private ioctls. 
Do you have a good knowledge about those? I think some of those already 
have a nl80211 equivalent.

Maybe it would be good to update twiki [1] on wireless.kernel.org with 
such information. It seems a bit outdated.

Regards,
Arend

[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Android