On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 10:20 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > >>> # iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type __ap > Indeed there is an issue with error handling here, but as this was a > user fault I was looking for early detection. If as you say that will > not be easy from cfg80211 we will need to rework brcmfmac code. > Currently, we create interface in firmware and upon receiving 'ifc > created' event we do the register_netdev. I think we do that to avoid > getting start_xmit calls as we do not use netif carrier calls. We could possibly check for duplicate names, but surely there are other failure modes that we can't easily pre-check, so it seems better to fix the driver (and, in fact, use the duplicate name issue as a convenient way of testing the error path) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
