MCC p2p_connect op channel selection

[Krishna Chaitanya]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 08:59:51PM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
>> When STA-VIF is connected to AP: Channel 10
>>
>> with p2p_oper_channel=1, using p2p_connect with go_intent=15, the
>> Group is starting in channel 10 even though the driver is MCC capable.
>
> p2p_oper_channel parameter should not be used for any production use
> case. If you want to specify the operating channel, use the freq=<MHz>
> argument with P2P_CONNECT.

Ok, can we document this somewhere?

>> So we have added "p2p_ignore_shared_freq" to the config file, still
>> the same behavior is seen.

> That should work if you specify the operating channel with the
> P2P_CONNECT command.
>
>> What is the ideal solution?
>>
>> 1) Change wpas_p2p_setup_freqs to take cfg->op_channel as highest priority.
>
> No, p2p_oper_channel configuration parameter should not be used for
> anything. The only potentially acceptable change would be to remove it
> completely from wpa_supplicant, but I don't want to do that since it may
> break parsing of existing configuration files.
>
>> 2) Make the pref_freq 0  (similar thing is done for invite case), but
>> still the op_channel in config file is not honored.
>> 3) Make the pref_freq=cfg->op_channel.
>
> 4) Use the documented (wpa_supplicant/README-P2P) freq parameter to
> p2p_connect.
A



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Thanks,
Regards,
Chaitanya T K.