From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "Adam R. Welle" <arwelle@cert.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace"
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:26:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151217132655.GA969@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5671E23A.1070502@candelatech.com>
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:14:18PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 09:30 AM, Adam R. Welle wrote:
> >
> >>Well, it was always rather awkward since it was the *second* address :)
> >
> >Could somebody provide background information on why the decision was
> >made to use a second address for the netlink frames instead of the same
> >address as was used for the non-netlink frames?
>
> I would be fine with always using the first address instead of the second,
> in case that helps someone.
It doesn't really, that would break old wmediumd.
> We could also set the address at creation time easily enough. Then it
> could still be unique across many machines if you managed it.
We already have a way to change mac addresses; adding a new API to change
the default address seems pointless to me.
--
Bob Copeland %% http://bobcopeland.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-17 13:26 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 [this message]
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
2015-12-16 14:16 ` Ben Greear
2015-12-16 14:33 ` me@bobcopeland.com >> Bob Copeland
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