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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
index 47012947a447..8c468c30b2d9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/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