Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 2 authors, 2018-01-22

Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mac80211_hwsim: add permanent mac address option for new radios

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2018-01-15 12:09:31

On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 17:42 +0100, Benjamin Beichler wrote:
To do not break the operation with legacy software using hwsim, the new
address is set twice. The problem here is, the netlink call backs use
wiphy->addresses[1] as identification of a radio and not the proposed
permanent address (wiphy->addresses[0]). This design decision is not
documented in the kernel repo, therefore this patch simply reproduces this,
but with the same address.
It's weird to have the same address twice - perhaps we can XOR 0x40 or
so?

johannes
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