Re: Connman WiFi p2p API evaluation

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Vendor WEXT extensions do have that capability though (I recently ripped out that vendor support in a Realtek 
driver).



> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:25, Dan Williams <dcbw 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