From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]:33888 "EHLO mail2.candelatech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751832AbaI3Roz (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:44:55 -0400 Message-ID: <542AEC16.5050003@candelatech.com> (sfid-20140930_194458_901923_662B237C) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:44:54 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: Marcel Holtmann , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Anyone working on making iw able to specify MAC address at station creation time? References: <5408A6BD.6090304@candelatech.com> (sfid-20140904_195201_728073_99DA3C67) <1409898836.1940.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1409898836.1940.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com