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Re: P2P support in brcmfmac

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:34:58PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 08:22 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:51:35PM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > 
> > > In 3.9 we introduced P2P support in brcmfmac which was functional using
> > > current wpa_supplicant P2P support, but we did not yet support the
> > > P2P_DEVICE user-space API.
> > > 
> > > Last week I enabled that in brcmfmac testing it with wpa_supplicant
> > > patches for P2P_DEVICE support from David Spinadel. So I do have a
> > > couple of brcmfmac patches to make that work and would like to submit
> > > those for 3.9 although it is not strictly a bug fix. Would you consider
> > > taking these?
> > 
> > That doesn't sound to me like something that would be worthy of such
> > an exception.
> 
> Maybe just make a small patch to disable the other API, so we don't end
> up having to support both?

Maybe I misunderstood.  So brcmfmac currently supports a P2P API
that is not otherwise available and which we don't want to support
in the future?

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