commit 89a6c651e56ecae33ed862bae0c77ecd90f71cb0
author Petri Gynther <pgynther@google.com> Wed Sep 10 11:45:04 2014 -0700
committer Marty Faltesek <mfaltesek@google.com> Thu Sep 03 19:26:08 2015 -0400
tree d44f253981dbcea7e4af20efc2adb13f939b695f
parent b4a732abd60a277ebc3f7af0509501e74d6015e0

mwifiex: create an AP interface instead of STA interface

hostapd doesn't know how to do this automatically.

backports-0200-mwifiex-interface-creation.patch

Change-Id: I40c34bd056dc3bb5a49a443b5dd334cadac9ab01

drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
index 2ef1ec1..5fe0574 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -517,11 +517,11 @@
 	}
 
 	rtnl_lock();
-	/* Create station interface by default */
-	wdev = mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(adapter->wiphy, "mlan%d", NET_NAME_ENUM,
-					NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION, NULL, NULL);
+	/* Create AP interface by default for Google Fiber TV Box */
+	wdev = mwifiex_add_virtual_intf(adapter->wiphy, "wlan%d", NET_NAME_ENUM,
+					NL80211_IFTYPE_AP, NULL, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(wdev)) {
-		dev_err(adapter->dev, "cannot create default STA interface\n");
+		dev_err(adapter->dev, "cannot create default AP interface\n");
 		rtnl_unlock();
 		goto err_add_intf;
 	}