From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Jouni Malinen" <j@w1.fi>,
"hostap@lists.shmoo.com" <hostap@lists.shmoo.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jithu Jance" <jithu@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: P2P Device support: how to deal with p2p_no_group_iface option
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 19:40:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A39A7F.1070806@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369669990.14740.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
On 05/27/2013 05:53 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 16:03 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> On 05/27/2013 03:59 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 15:56 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I don't think I'd do either of those. Not creating P2P_DEVICE will
>>>>> simply not work with drivers expecting it, and changing iftype to/from
>>>>> P2P-Device isn't supported since it would delete/create the netdev.
>>>>
>>>> So should we check that in cfg80211 upon wiphy_register().
>>>
>>> Check what?
>>
>> Check that the interface combinations contain a iface limit with only
>> P2P_DEVICE:
>>
>> {
>> .max = 1,
>> .types = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE)
>> }
>
> We have that, right?
>
> wiphy_verify_combinations:
> /* Only a single P2P_DEVICE can be allowed */
> if (WARN_ON(types &
> BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE) &&
> c->limits[j].max > 1))
> return -EINVAL;
I see. I did not search the code. my bad.
Gr. AvS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-27 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-25 11:23 P2P Device support: how to deal with p2p_no_group_iface option Arend van Spriel
2013-05-27 9:03 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-27 13:56 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-05-27 13:59 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-27 14:03 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-05-27 15:53 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-27 17:40 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2013-05-27 18:11 ` Jouni Malinen
2013-05-27 19:15 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-27 19:20 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-05-27 19:27 ` Johannes Berg
2013-05-27 18:51 ` Marcel Holtmann
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