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Re: brcmfmac: one faulty "iw interface add" command breaks in-firmware BSS state

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On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 09:47 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:

> > # iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type __ap
> 
> Now this is a pretty silly scenario as there already is a wlan0 
> interface. Admittedly, this should be rejected as such. This clearly is 
> a user mistake (not sure why you quoted that :-p ) and it might be good 
> to catch this in cfg80211 as it probably applies to other drivers as 
> well. This probably explains why register_netdev fails.

I don't think that's easy to catch - but the driver really should just
see that register_netdev fails and do nothing (except for reporting the
error back), no?

johannes

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