[PATCH 00/20] wpa_s: p2p: support nl80211 P2P_DEVICE interface

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 03:28:15PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the nl80211 P2P_DEVICE interface
> concept. It has been based partly on the patches sent by David Spinadel.
> This series differs from that David's series in the fact that the
> P2P Device interface is represented by a struct wpa_supplicant instance.
> 
> The code changes has been tested with one peer supporting P2P_DEVICE and
> one peer with a so-called dummy net device, ie. p2p0. Peers found
> each other using p2p_find and connection was established with p2p_connect
> using pbc method.

Thanks. I started applying commits, but had to stop with that pretty
quickly since this broke number of things in my tests (including hostapd
build and wpa_supplicant start).. I think I managed to fix most of the
issues, but this still does not work in my hwsim tests.

I did quite a bit of cleanup and re-ordering of commits etc. to avoid
breaking things in the middle of series. It is possible that I may have
broken something here, but I didn't find what it could be. As such, I
did not push any of this into the master branch yet, but you can find
the latest version I tested with in the devel branch. It would be
helpful if you could verify whether it still works for you. It should be
noted that I did not get the unmodified versions working either (after
fixing the TDLS startup issue with a one-liner), so I'm not completely
sure what to expect from these changes with mac80211_hwsim.

One thing that came up, though, is that this is likely to break upper
layer expectations since this changes default behavior by creating a new
control interface for the P2P Device functionality. This will likely
need to be made configurable to avoid that kind of default behavior
change. This could be either build or runtime configuration, I guess,
but I have not yet went through all the use cases so don't know what
would be the best approach.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA