Re: [PATCH] nl80211: allow user-space to determine address for P2P_DEVICE

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 10:54 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:

> >> +	if (type == NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_DEVICE && info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC])
> >> +		nla_memcpy(&params.macaddr[0], info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MAC],
> >> +			   ETH_ALEN);
> > 
> > It seems like this might need a capability parameter or something, so
> > wpa_s knows this will take effect. OTOH, wpa_s can query the MAC address
> > afterwards, so it's not really needed, so I applied it.
> 
> Not sure if I can follow. I did submit wpa_s patch for flagging the P2P
> device capability. Are you suggesting an additional flag here to
> indicate whether the MAC address can be configured by wpa_s?

Yes, or maybe it's not needed as wpa_s could read the address back after
the interface is created, and see whether it stuck. Right now, for
example, with mac80211 it wouldn't be used at all.

> > I would also like to see a mac80211 change though to make it take effect
> > there.
> 
> See what I can do. I guess it does involve mac80211 device drivers as
> well, right?

Oh, I think there's no mac80211 driver using P2P device yet. :-) I have
a patch for iwlwifi but I'm not merging it until wpa_s gets "more ready"

johannes