Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] allow setting wiphy.perm_addr after driver probe | From | Daniel Gimpelevich <> | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:01:06 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 16:56 -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > the way I read the nl80211 code is that the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE > requires a wiphy device to be specified. And that is actually just a > number. So I have no idea what the MAC has to here. > OpenWrt finds a wiphy by its MAC.
> Why does the wiphy need to know the MAC if it is always specified from > userspace when actually creating the new netdev interface. Works for > P2P devices, so why wouldn't it work for access point and station > mode? > A MAC can be specified for the netdev, but it is assigned to a wiphy identified by its MAC.
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