Re: Anyone working on making iw able to specify MAC address at station creation time?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/04/2014 11:33 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 10:51 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> I'm having issues with udev renaming newly created stations when I have
>> udev rules for wlanX, when wlanX is not already existing.
>>
>> I think specifying MAC on station creation time would solve my problems,
>> but haven't looked closely yet.
>>
>> My version of 'iw' doesn't support setting the MAC on creation, from
>> what I can tel.
>>
>> Curious if anyone else is working on this?
> 
> I think Marcel mentioned wanting this before. There's even an attribute
> in nl80211 already, but it can only be used for P2P_DEVICE I believe, so
> a feature flag or so would be needed to be able to know whether or not
> this would be expected to take any effect (kernels before those future
> changes would ignore the attribute for non-P2P-DEVICE I believe)

>From what I can tell, cfg80211 does parse the macaddr for p2p-device,
but I don't see it used in mac80211/iface.c ieee80211_if_add.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Ben

> 
> Haven't looked at the code right now, this is all I know.
> 
> johannes
> 


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