Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.5] cfg80211: enforce lack of interface combinations
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:58:27 +0100
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On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 14:27 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> 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?.

As long as you don't try to add the AP interface as the second one...

johannes