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Re: [RFC 01/14] cfg80211: respect intf combinations for 1 interface

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Johannes Berg wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 13:18 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
Don't ignore interface combinations when only one
interface is up. Otherwise we may call a driver to
create (or change) interface type to something it
didn't report in interface combinations it
reported.

We still check wiphy.interface_modes before we even go into this
function, no? Arguably we should move the check into the function, but
I'm not sure what you're fixing here.

Suppose a driver advertises support for AP and STA. Without the patch it's possible to bring up e.g. IBSS interface.


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Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Michal Kazior.
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