Re: question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace"

["me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland" <me@bobcopeland.com>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 07:29:30PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> This patch below was added to the kernel around 2/24/2015
> 
> I am curious mostly about the first change:  I thought the transmitter-addr
> relates to the radio device, not the vdev (sta, ap, etc).
> 
> But, wouldn't using data from the header break that assumption?

I'm not sure this assumption is correct.  I have a hard time
seeing the value in basing the transmitter addr attribute on some
hardware address that may not even be used.

> Is there any actual advantage to having more than one address per
> hwsim radio?  It seems it complicates things for no particular
> reason as far as I can tell?

As a practical matter: the radios already have two "hardware"
addresses, and as reported in the commit log, only one of them
worked with the netlink interface, and it wasn't even the default
address.

I suppose there's no real benefit to multi-vif on hwsim vs multiple
phys, other than testing multi-vif support in the stack, but why not?
I think this patch actually simplifies things.

Does this patch cause problems for your userspace implementation?

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