[PATCH 0/4] DBus, handling the P2P mgmt interface properly

Jouni Malinen j
Sat Oct 25 08:43:46 PDT 2014


On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:31:17AM +0300, Tomasz Bursztyka wrote:

> To get a consistent API, whatever the driver is, I did this patch-set.
> Basically, if a P2P mgmt device is created, it is not registered into DBus, thus the
> client will not know about it. And then all P2P commands it might do against the
> "normal" (non-P2P specific) interface will be transparently redirected to the P2P
> mgmt device, and the result will come back to the earlier interface properly.
> 
> This hides the P2P mgmt to the DBus client, so this one does not have to handle it
> if it is present. So the API usage will identical whatever card/driver is in use below.

This sounds reasonable. There seemed to be couple of open questions on
the changes. Are those still open or is this version good to go as-is?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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