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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dedy Lansky <dlansky@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: add new scan flag to indicate P2P search
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:27:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422260840.1890.9.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422189052-25602-1-git-send-email-dlansky@codeaurora.org>

On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 14:30 +0200, Dedy Lansky wrote:
> Scan request (NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN) is used for triggering both scan
> and P2P search.
> At driver/firmware layer, scan and P2P search might be handled differently.
> 
> Add new scan flag to indicate P2P search. This flag can be used
> by applications (e.g. wpa_supplicant) to explicitly request P2P search.

I think this ship has sailed many months ago -- too late, you can never
rely on wpa_supplicant settings this flag.

If you need to distinguish, you should be able to advertise P2P-Device
supports, and then get P2P scans on the P2P-Device virtual interface.
Could be a pure driver thing of course.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-26  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-25 12:30 [PATCH] nl80211: add new scan flag to indicate P2P search Dedy Lansky
2015-01-26  8:27 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-01-26  9:58   ` Jouni Malinen
2015-01-29  7:01     ` Dedy Lansky
2015-02-23 16:07     ` Johannes Berg

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