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Re: [RFC] cfg80211: keep track of supported interface modes

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On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:47 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:13 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:21 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > It is obviously good for userspace to know up front which interface modes
> > > a given piece of hardware might support (even if adding such an interface
> > > might fail later because of concurrency issues), so let's make cfg80211
> > > aware of that. For good measure, disallow adding interfaces in all other
> > > modes so drivers don't forget to announce support for one mode when they
> > > add it.
> > 
> > This makes me happy.
> 
> We discussed this in Ottawa, didn't we? It just slipped my mind and I
> remembered earlier today.

Yep, we did.

Dan

> No somebody just needs to go through and add the corresponding hunks for
> all drivers. *hint* :) (it mostly consists in seeing what the
> add_interface callback will accept, which is correct for all drivers but
> iwlwifi as far as I know)
> 
> johannes

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