This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211_hwsim: remove P2P_DEVICE support
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211_hwsim-remove-p2p_device-support.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wed Jun 5 13:26:01 2013
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 22:24:11 +0200
Subject: mac80211_hwsim: remove P2P_DEVICE support
To: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx>, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1369340651-14475-1-git-send-email-johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Unfortunately, advertising P2P_DEVICE support was a little
premature, a number of issues came up in testing and have
been fixed for 3.10. Rather than try to backport all the
different fixes, disable P2P_DEVICE support in the drivers
using it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -2118,7 +2118,6 @@ static const struct ieee80211_iface_limi
#endif
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO) },
- { .max = 1, .types = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE) },
};
static struct ieee80211_iface_combination hwsim_if_comb = {
@@ -2230,8 +2229,7 @@ static int __init init_mac80211_hwsim(vo
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
- BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) |
- BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE);
+ BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT);
hw->flags = IEEE80211_HW_MFP_CAPABLE |
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM |
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/mac80211_hwsim-remove-p2p_device-support.patch
queue-3.9/iwlwifi-mvm-remove-p2p_device-support.patch
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