On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 22:58 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Vendor WEXT extensions do have that capability though (I recently ripped out 
> that vendor support in a Realtek driver).

NM's implementation would be via wpa_supplicant, and I'm 110% sure that
the supplicant will never support P2P through the WEXT driver :)  So in
the end, yeah, it'll be nl80211/cfg80211 only.

Dan

> > On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:25, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 19:01 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 16:04 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> Thomas asked me to look at the Connman P2P/Direct APIs to see if we can
> >>> share some of the interfaces.  I think that's a worthwhile goal, so
> >>> here's a short writeup of where the APIs stand WRT to NetworkManager's
> >>> current D-Bus API.
> >> 
> >> Quick question. Would the support in NM require the P2P support in the
> >> driver being handled by cfg80211?
> > 
> > Yes.  WEXT has no capabilities to handle P2P, if that's what you're
> > asking.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 


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