wpa_supplicant 2.4/2.5 issue with some Intel chipsets

[Peer, Ilan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hostap [mailto:hostap-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of
> Evangelos Foutras
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 21:06
> To: Jouni Malinen
> Cc: hostap at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant 2.4/2.5 issue with some Intel chipsets
> 
> On 24/12/15 20:49, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 04:07:58PM +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> >> While I am not personally experiencing any issues with wpa_supplicant
> >> 2.5 (not using an Intel wifi card though), we have had several people
> >> reporting connection issues downstream in Arch Linux.
> >>
> >> It appears to be related to the creation and/or usage of P2P
> >> management interfaces on some Intel chipsets. (Pardon any wrong
> >> terminology, I am not familiar with the wireless stack.)
> >>
> >> A common error message appears to be:
> >>
> >>   Could not read interface p2p-dev-wlp2s0 flags: No such device
> >>

This print is probably harmless. I've just sent a patch that fixes this issue. See http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/561134/.

Regards,

Ilan.