No, I didn't experience any functionality issues. Nonetheless, after switching the invocation order of the functions nl80211_remove_iface() and linux_br_del_if() the log entry disappears. However, I'm unsure whether this patch could prove problematic under a setup different than mine. On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:24:30PM +0300, Yoel D. wrote: >> I've encountered the following error during hostapd shutdown process: >> >> hostapd: nl80211: Failed to remove interface wlan0-1 from bridge >> br0: No such device >> >> I think that this error occurs because the function >> wpa_driver_nl80211_if_remove() removes the specified interface from >> the host via the function nl80211_remove_iface() before deleting it >> from the bridge via the function linux_br_del_if(). >> >> Thus, when the function linux_br_del_if() is finally invoked in the >> next few lines of code, the aforementioned error is raised since the >> interface no longer exists. > > Does this cause any real issue to functionality apart from seeing that > entry in debug log? I'm pretty sure this is not the only case where > similar debug entries can be seen since the operation is not really > needed in some cases. > > -- > Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
