[RFC 03/10] nl80211 driver: hold wdev identification for P2P device

[Arend Van Spriel]

Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:30 AM

> > +   if (wdev_id == -1) {
> > +           err = nla_put_u32(msg, NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX, drv-
> >ifindex) < 0;
> > +           if (err)
> > +                   goto nla_put_failure;
> > +   } else {
> > +           NLA_PUT_U64(msg, NL80211_ATTR_WDEV, wdev_id);
> > +   }
>
> Seems like you could use nl80211_set_iface_id() here as well. Maybe I am
> overlooking something.
>
I cannot use it here since we have no i802_bss here. This wdev_id is coming from wpa_driver_nl8021_scan(). Common scan is done here on the driver, not on the interface. Maybe it worth to fix?
David

A: I overlooked that. Does fixing it mean other drivers need to be modified as well?

Regards,
Arend