Re: [RFC v4] cfg80211: Android P2P-Device workaround

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

On 04/29/2013 02:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> Android requires a "p2p0" netdev to exist for P2P Device
> functionality, and will even set it "UP" to start the P2P
> Device functionality.

You can blame Broadcom for that ;-)

> This is a hack to provide it so not only is Android happy
> but also the current version of wpa_supplicant can work
> with P2P-Device functionality without needing changes to
> support the P2P-Device commands, just a little bit to not
> attempt to change the interface type to station.

Reading the subject I was going to say it is not only Android 
workaround, but the commit message also covers non-android use-case.

I will give it another spin. What changed compared to v3.

Regards,
Arend

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> ---
>   include/net/cfg80211.h |   4 ++
>   net/wireless/Kconfig   |   7 +++
>   net/wireless/Makefile  |   1 +
>   net/wireless/android.c | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   net/wireless/core.c    |  14 +++++
>   net/wireless/core.h    |   6 ++
>   net/wireless/nl80211.c |  63 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   7 files changed, 242 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 net/wireless/android.c
>