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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: add p2p device type support

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> When a driver advertises p2p device support,
> mac80211 will handle it, but internally it will
> rewrite the interface type to STA/AP rather than
> P2P-STA/GO since otherwise a lot of paths need
> to be touched that are otherwise identical. A
> p2p boolean tells drivers whether or not a given
> interface will be used for p2p or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

While at it can you add a is_beaconing_iftype() or something, that
should reduce code and make it easier to check for these modes.

  Luis
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