Virtual Interface for P2P operations

[Jithu Jance]

> The kernel patches to allow having a separate P2P Device in the kernel
> (without a netdev!) are here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/93044
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Johannes, thanks a lot for updating us.
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> I am working with Johannes on the supplicant part of the work that needs
to be done. Let me know if there are any specific suggestions.
Thanks Nirav!! I have some doubts. Before I put them to you, let me go
through the above patches and see whether my doubts are valid. :)
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- Jithu Jance



On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Shah, Nirav J2 <nirav.j2.shah at intel.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am working with Johannes on the supplicant part of the work that needs
> to be done. Let me know if there are any specific suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Nirav.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Berg [mailto:johannes at sipsolutions.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:01 AM
> To: Jithu Jance
> Cc: j at w1.fi; Greg Goldman; Henry Ptasinski; hostap at lists.shmoo.com;
> Neeraj Kumar Garg; Shah, Nirav J2
> Subject: RE: Virtual Interface for P2P operations
>
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 03:26 -0700, Jithu Jance wrote:
>
> > Originally wpa_supplicant uses a primary mac address for the P2P
> > dev_addr. For concurrent mode (LegacySTA and P2P), it could be better,
> > if we can use separate mac_addr for P2P and legacy STA right from the
> > beginning. Also Wifi firmware which support multiple interfaces will
> > be easier to support if P2P device address is different from the
> > primary mac address (with local administered bit set).
>
> We should pick up this discussion again since I've started work on this
> in order to be able to have P2P Device address == P2P Interface address
> for our driver. I think the addresses should be (pre-)assigned by the
> driver.
>
> The kernel patches to allow having a separate P2P Device in the kernel
> (without a netdev!) are here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/93044
>
> johannes
>
>
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