From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: [PATCH 7/13] d80211: add a perm_addr hardware property Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:29:16 +0100 Message-ID: <1163964556.15473.53.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1163802439.3392.47.camel@johannes.berg> <1163963898.15473.36.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Benc , "John W. Linville" , Simon Barber , Jouni Malinen , Hong Liu , David Kimdon , Michael Wu , Michael Buesch , Ivo van Doorn Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:42933 "EHLO sipsolutions.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933064AbWKSTbR (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:31:17 -0500 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1163963898.15473.36.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org After removing knowledge of the master net_dev from drivers, they'll still need a way to tell us which MAC address they have. This is that way, the perm_addr is initially used for all devices. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- wireless-dev.orig/include/net/d80211.h 2006-11-19 20:13:58.029275208 +0100 +++ wireless-dev/include/net/d80211.h 2006-11-19 20:13:59.349275208 +0100 @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #define D80211_H #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -439,6 +440,9 @@ struct ieee80211_hw { struct device *dev; + /* permanent mac address */ + u8 perm_addr[ETH_ALEN]; + /* TODO: frame_type 802.11/802.3, sw_encryption requirements */ /* Some wireless LAN chipsets generate beacons in the hardware/firmware --- wireless-dev.orig/net/d80211/ieee80211_iface.c 2006-11-19 20:13:58.069275208 +0100 +++ wireless-dev/net/d80211/ieee80211_iface.c 2006-11-19 20:13:59.359275208 +0100 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct net_device * snprintf(ndev->name, IFNAMSIZ, "%s", name); } - memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, local->mdev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN); + memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, local->wiphy.perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); ndev->base_addr = dev->base_addr; ndev->irq = dev->irq; ndev->mem_start = dev->mem_start; @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add_mgmt(struct ieee802 goto fail; ndev->ieee80211_ptr = local; - memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, local->mdev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN); + memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, local->wiphy.perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, local->mdev->class_dev.dev); nsdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(ndev); --- wireless-dev.orig/net/d80211/ieee80211.c 2006-11-19 20:13:58.039275208 +0100 +++ wireless-dev/net/d80211/ieee80211.c 2006-11-19 20:13:59.359275208 +0100 @@ -4565,6 +4565,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee802 rtnl_unlock(); goto fail_dev; } + memcpy(local->mdev->dev_addr, local->wiphy.perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); result = register_netdevice(local->mdev); if (result < 0) { rtnl_unlock();