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Re: [RFC] wireless: cfg80211: add peer-to-peer related definitions

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On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 20:05 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:

> > Ah, fmac, that will be somewhat interesting. What userspace APIs are you
> > proposing for that case?

> Not sure if I understand the question. I am using wpa_supplicant with 
> wpa_cli for testing and given its p2p support I assumed there is already 
> a nl80211 api in place. I am still trying to get a good sense on it. The 
> P2P code to port does more parsing of P2P stuff and if you mean adding 
> userspace APIs to avoid just that I would definitely prefer that.

Well the APIs that we have in place right now are really basically just
a conduit and wpa_s does all the operations. I would expect fmac to have
more offloads (and thus need the parsing), I'd actually be surprised if
you could work with the existing APIs.

johannes

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