[PATCH v3] wpa_supplicant: Denitialize the driver if the last user went away

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 02:30:44PM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> It might be that the underlying infrastrucutre went away and the state is no
> longer valid. We ought to reinitialize it once a device appears again.
> 
> This is the case when the nl80211 devices disappear and cfg8011 is remoed
> afterwards. The netlink handle is no longer valid (returns ENOENT) and a new
> one needs to be open if it's loaded back.

As noted previously, this is not the correct way to address this.
Furthermore, removing and re-adding cfg80211 works fine for me. Have you
tested this with the following "nl80211: Resubscribe to nl80211 events
on global nl_event socket" commit included?

http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=f51f54a007e0de1d413dee3523472d3bbeed2ecc

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA