Instances of wpa_supplicant

[Barigal, Shrishail]

Thanks Jouni. That makes sense.

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From: Jouni Malinen [mailto:j at w1.fi] 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 2:18 PM
To: Barigal, Shrishail <sbarigal at qti.qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: Instances of wpa_supplicant

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 05:31:26AM +0000, Barigal, Shrishail wrote:
> I have a small query related to multiple instances of wpa_supplicant in Linux-x86.
> I have put down the 2 cases of my execution and the results are different for both. I am basically concerned with the channel of the P2P-GO formed.
> 
> What is the difference in running 1 wpa_supplicant with 2 different interface and running 2 wpa_supplicant with 1 interface each as mentioned below:

When using a single wpa_supplicant process to control multiple interfaces, information about the operating channels of the other interfaces can be used to help in selecting a more suitable new operating channel to avoid less efficient multi channel concurrent cases.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA