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mwifiex: Start P2P devices in P2P mode

p2p devices should identify themselves as such to userspace at
startup, so the connection manager can decide which interface
to start wpa_supplicant instances on.

Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Paul Stewart 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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      drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c

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drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c

@@ -2136,10 +2136,9 @@ struct wireless_dev *mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy,
 
 		/* At start-up, wpa_supplicant tries to change the interface
 		 * to NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION if it is not managed mode.
-		 * So, we initialize it to STA mode.
 		 */
-		wdev->iftype = NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION;
-		priv->bss_mode = NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION;
+		wdev->iftype = NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT;
+		priv->bss_mode = NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_CLIENT;
 
 		/* Setting bss_type to P2P tells firmware that this interface
 		 * is receiving P2P peers found during find phase and doing