[RFC 06/10] nl80211_driver: add support for P2P device in adding and removing interface

Arend van Spriel arend
Mon Feb 11 05:31:27 PST 2013


On 02/11/2013 12:56 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 12:53 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 
>> For P2P_DEVICE an additional parameter should be given in the
>> NEW_INTERFACE command to allow wpa_supplicant to determine the P2P
>> device address:
>>
>> NLA_PUT(msg, NL80211_ATTR_MAC, ETH_ALEN, p2p_dev_addr);
> 
> That's not really necessary, unless you want to have a single P2P Device
> interface shared between multiple devices, no?

Correct, but it seems to make sense to accommodate for it instead of
doing another patch later on (although the patch went in for v3.9,
right?). Just a comment, I leave it to David what to do with it.

Gr. AvS




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