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Re: [PATCH 3.5] cfg80211: enforce lack of interface combinations

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:51:28AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 14:12 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:06:03PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > My grand plan to allow drivers to gradually move over
> > > to advertising virtual interface combinations and only
> > > enforce with drivers that do want it enforced doesn't
> > > seem to be working out, only Christian ever added the
> > > advertising (to carl9170), nobody else did.
> > > 
> > > Begin enforcing combinations in cfg80211 so that users
> > > can rely on the information reported about a device.
> > 
> > This breaks ath6kl AP mode and P2P, is it expected that the driver
> > needs to register the combination (?) even it supports a single
> > interface?
> 
> Kalle tells me that ath6kl does support multiple virtual interfaces, but
> if it didn't then it wouldn't have to register combinations.
> 
> I suspect you're using
> driver_param=use_p2p_group_interface=1
> in wpa_supplicant?

Actually, I verified only AP mode, since it affects any sort of change interface,
I mentioned P2P as well. AP is expected to work without any issue right?.

Vasanth
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