We should use ap_scan=1 *except* for AP/IBSS/AdHoc, where ap_scan=2 is
required. ap_scan for "infra" mode is all historical and was for old,
crappy, and proprietary drivers that we should really stop hacking stuff
for. Those drivers did not support probe-scanning for hidden APs and
thus the supplicant just had to send all the config to the driver and
hope things worked.
All relevant and non-crappy drivers these days support at least one SSID
probe and thus is_broadcast affecting ap_scan should no longer be
something we support. If you have an old, crappy
WEXT/proprietary/staging driver, and you use hidden APs, you're doing it
wrong.
So, in short, we must keep the ap_scan=2 logic for AP+AdHoc, but we can
remove the is_broadcast and has_scan_capa_ssid arguments and the code
where they change ap_scan.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025371#c18
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
A new value for NM80211Mode is introduced (NM_802_11_MODE_AP) and the
new mode is passed to wpa_supplicant analogous to adhoc-mode.
The places which need to know the interface mode have been extended to
handle the new mode.
If the configuration does not contain a fixed frequency, a channel is
selected the same way as with adhoc-mode before.
