[PATCH] Android: Skip explicit conf_p2p_dev loading for main interface

[Peer, Ilan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arend van Spriel [mailto:arend at broadcom.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 16:36
> To: Peer, Ilan
> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt; hostap at lists.shmoo.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Android: Skip explicit conf_p2p_dev loading for main
> interface
> 
> On 09/29/14 13:05, Peer, Ilan wrote:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > My original reply was bounced by the moderator ? so here it is again:
> >
> > You are correct; the ?m switch does not currently make much sense in
> > case of netdev interface used for P2P_DEVICE operations (and also
> > there is no need to specify it for the main interface).
> >
> > The first call to wpa_supplicant_add_interface() add the network
> > interface, but in that case iface->p2p_mgmt would not be set, so
> > checking would allow to skip reading the p2p device configuration file.
> >
> > After the netdev interface is created, the code creates an additional
> > interface for the P2P Device management (only if one does not exist
> > and the underlying device supports it). So in this case
> > wpas_p2p_add_p2pdev_interface() is called, and only in this case
> > iface->p2p_mgmt is set.
> >
> > So bottom line, I think that a cleaner fix would be to base the
> > reading on the setting of iface->p2p_mgmt.
> 
> Related to this I created a patch that would make the -m option redundant.
> This is done by skipping networks and ignore 'p2p_disabled=1'
> in the configuration when iface->p2p_mgmt is set.
> 

Does this handle the case of update_config=1? In this case, if the configuration file is shared between 2 different interfaces, one of them will override the configuration of the other when wpa_supplicant exists or instructed to save the config.

Regardless, I think that the approach of have one global configuration file to hold device wide configuration is cleaner and more scalable. 

Regards,

Ilan.