[RFC] nl80211: set NLMODE correctly for AP interface

[Avinash Patil]

Hi Jouni,

Do you have any comment on this patch? If not so, do you want me to
send this as patch instead of RFC?

Thanks,
Avinash

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Avinash Patil <avinashapatil at gmail.com> wrote:
> From aa6bb9891b00d0a07658a93020d05027c6ce4454 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Avinash Patil <patila at marvell.com>
> Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 00:03:17 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: set NLMODE correctly for AP interface
>
> During supplicant/hostapd initialization, current implementation
> sets NLMODE as AP only when hostapd has been started or for dynamically
> created interfaces.
> If supplicant is used for AP operations on statically created AP
> interfaces, this also should also set NLMODE as AP.
> This patch handles this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila at marvell.com>
> ---
>  src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> index 1300703..be222d9 100644
> --- a/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> +++ b/src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c
> @@ -4698,7 +4698,7 @@ wpa_driver_nl80211_finish_drv_init(struct
> wpa_driver_nl80211_data *drv,
>         if (first && nl80211_get_ifmode(bss) == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
>                 drv->start_mode_ap = 1;
>
> -       if (drv->hostapd)
> +       if (drv->hostapd || nl80211_get_ifmode(bss) == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
>                 nlmode = NL80211_IFTYPE_AP;
>         else if (bss->if_dynamic)
>                 nlmode = nl80211_get_ifmode(bss);
> --
> 1.8.1.4