netdev - Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces

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Message-ID: <20091117140626.GE27743@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:06:27 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mac80211: disallow bridging managed/adhoc interfaces

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 14:46:25 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > --- wireless-testing.orig/net/bridge/br_if.c	2009-11-17 14:19:17.000000000 +0100
> > +++ wireless-testing/net/bridge/br_if.c	2009-11-17 14:20:03.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -390,6 +390,10 @@ int br_add_if(struct net_bridge *br, str
> >  	if (dev->br_port != NULL)
> >  		return -EBUSY;
> >  
> > +	/* No bridging devices that dislike that (e.g. wireless) */
> > +	if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_DONT_BRIDGE)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> -EOPNOTSUPP?
> That would probably produce a better error message in userspace.

Yes, good point.

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