Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:12:19 +0530
From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.5] cfg80211: enforce lack of interface combinations
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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?

Vasanth