[RFC] nl80211: allow Android P2P functionality

[Arend van Spriel]

On 05/16/2013 06:42 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 00:17 +0800, YanBo wrote:
>
>>> That depends on your driver.
>
>> In my humble opinion, for the fullmac driver, it seems easy to handler
>> this case, cause they create the p2p0 and wlan0 by themselves.
>
> I don't think they should do so, they should let wpa_s create it. Look
> at the patches Arend just posted, he's working with a fullmac driver as
> well.

Hi Johannes,

To me it seem YanBo is working with a mac80211 driver and asking how to 
tell mac80211 it can support multiple (concurrent) interfaces.

Gr. AvS

>> but for mac80211 driver, normally we just register one physical entity
>> by call ieee80211_alloc_hw(), but the virtual device wlan0 and p2p0
>> are all created based on this, so when try to 'UP' one of them when
>> another has been in 'UP' status, the upper layer(cfg80211/mac80211?)
>> will report this device in busy status cause the physical entity has
>> been opened already. (CMIIW? maybe there are some special flag that I
>> don't know can be set to avoid such device busy block)
>
> You have to correctly register to cfg80211 (even for fullmac drivers!)
> that you support virtual interface concurrency.
>
> johannes
>
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