From: "me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland" <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace"
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:57:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151216135729.GB4073@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <567166D0.5090000@candelatech.com>
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:27:44AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> >Does this patch cause problems for your userspace implementation?
>
> Yes, because I coded with the assumptions that the radio addr had nothing
> to do with the vif addr.
I see -- but looking back at wmediumd history (before I had anything to
do with it) it seems it always had the opposite assumption -- e.g. the
ATTR_ADDR_TRANSMITTER mac address was compared against addresses in the
frame for delivery decisions.
--
Bob Copeland %% http://bobcopeland.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-16 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-16 3:29 question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace" Ben Greear
2015-12-16 9:17 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 13:13 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 13:25 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 13:35 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 13:42 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 14:11 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 14:14 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 14:15 ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-16 14:59 ` Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 15:52 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 17:30 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-16 17:46 ` Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 18:57 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-16 22:14 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 22:56 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-16 23:20 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 23:56 ` Adam R. Welle
2015-12-17 13:26 ` Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 13:21 ` me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland
2015-12-16 13:27 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 13:57 ` me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland [this message]
2015-12-16 14:16 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 14:33 ` me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland
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