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[PATCH] mac80211: allow GO to scan like AP

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2011-02-01 14:35:39

From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

There's no point in disallowing scanning for a
GO interface when it's not beaconing yet.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <redacted>
---
 net/mac80211/cfg.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c	2011-02-01 15:33:04.000000000 +0100
+++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c	2011-02-01 15:33:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -1274,8 +1274,11 @@ static int ieee80211_scan(struct wiphy *
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO:
 		if (sdata->local->ops->hw_scan)
 			break;
-		/* FIXME: implement NoA while scanning in software */
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		/*
+		 * FIXME: implement NoA while scanning in software,
+		 * for now fall through to allow scanning only when
+		 * beaconing hasn't been configured yet
+		 */
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
 		if (sdata->u.ap.beacon)
 			return -EOPNOTSUPP;

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