[PATCH V2 00/23] P2P: support nl80211 P2P_DEVICE interface

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Jun 30 06:05:34 EDT 2013


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the nl80211 P2P_DEVICE interface
> concept. It is based upon and including the 18 reworked patches from
> the devel branch. The code changes has been tested with one peer
> supporting P2P_DEVICE and one peer with a so-called dummy net device,
> ie. p2p0. Peers found each other using p2p_find and connection was
> established with p2p_connect using pbc method.

I applied rest of the patches (17-23) now. Though, I did re-order these
to fix the issues first before enabling use of the P2P_DEVICE. In
addition, I disabled P2P_DEVICE capability by default until all the
kernel version and advertisement related issues can be resolved. To
enable P2P_DEVICE, you would need to add driver_param=p2p_device=1 into
the configuration file for now. The default may end up getting changed
to this being enabled eventually, but it will probably be good to
maintain this configuration mechanism for hwsim tests (or alternatively,
make mac80211_hwsim advertisement of P2P_DEVICE functionality
configurable).

> Also ran the hwsim tests 'test_p2p_*.py' with some modifications,
> because P2P events are now sent to a different control interface.

This needs to be fixed more cleanly so that the test cases handle both
group interface cases automatically (i.e., use same netdev and use a
separate group netdev). Anyway, I'd assume this is independent of the
new P2P_DEVICE functionality.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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