[RFC 06/10] nl80211_driver: add support for P2P device in adding and removing interface

[Arend van Spriel]

+ Jouni

On 02/13/2013 08:41 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
>>>> That's not really necessary, unless you want to have a single P2P
>>>> Device interface shared between multiple devices, no?
>>>
>>> Correct, but it seems to make sense to accommodate for it instead of doing
>>> another patch later on (although the patch went in for v3.9, right?). Just a
>>> comment, I leave it to David what to do with it.
>>>
>> I don't think it required, since wpa_supplicant has only one P2P state
>> machine, I don't see a reason to deal with more than one P2P device.
> 
> I think the idea behind it was that you could have a 2.4/5 GHz device
> and a 60 GHz device and have them both use the same P2P Device Address
> so you can use them interchangeably.

That is indeed how I understood the explanation from Jouni (see attached
email). I think it is actually about the mac address that ends up in the
action frame header.

> However I'd actually argue that you should just create the second one
> with the same address as the first (and even creating a second one in
> cases like that will need a lot of work) so that you can get the device
> address assigned by the kernel? OTOH, if the kernel has no address,
> we'll probably have to allow changing it? This may need some work.
> 
> johannes
> 

Regards,
Arend

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