Commit 8dffff21 authored Dec 09, 2008 by Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville Dec 12, 2008

mac80211: only create default STA interface if supported



Drivers will support this, obviously, but this forces them to
set it up properly.

(This includes the fix posted as "mac80211: fix ifmodes check" and
tested in wireless-testing by Hin-Tak and others. -- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 0f202aa2

net/mac80211/main.c

+8 −6

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		@@ -886,12 +886,14 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)

		local->mdev->select_queue = ieee80211_select_queue;

		/* add one default STA interface */
		/* add one default STA interface if supported */
		if (local->hw.wiphy->interface_modes & BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION)) {
		result = ieee80211_if_add(local, "wlan%d", NULL,
		NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION, NULL);
		if (result)
		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Failed to add default virtual iface\n",
		wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy));
		}

		rtnl_unlock();