From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Wu Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] d80211: add a perm_addr hardware property Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:49:27 -0500 Message-ID: <200611031649.32739.flamingice@sourmilk.net> References: <20061102223854.692274000@sipsolutions.net> <20061102223854.692274000@sipsolutions.net>> <20061102230015.186648000@sipsolutions.net>> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1364916.xAZYnupU7a"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Benc , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ivo van Doorn , John Linville , Michael Buesch , Hong Liu Return-path: Received: from smtp.rutgers.edu ([128.6.72.243]:1357 "EHLO annwn13.rutgers.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932160AbWKCVtw (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:49:52 -0500 To: Johannes Berg In-Reply-To: <20061102230015.186648000@sipsolutions.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --nextPart1364916.xAZYnupU7a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:38, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. > Shouldn't you add something to ieee80211_set_mac_address so the driver/d802= 11=20 can find out what MAC address the user actually wants? Might be easier to just point perm_addr to dev_addr, but that would make it= =20 obvious that perm_addr is a bit messy. A wrapper for drivers that returns a= =20 pointer to dev_addr might be a better idea. Also, do we need to update interfaces associated with the master interface= =20 when the master MAC address changes? =2DMichael Wu --nextPart1364916.xAZYnupU7a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFS7lsT3Oqt9AH4aERAllzAKDGoHCBK6egm7rCL2m84p9iheqmxwCfa46e FplUrz1RCUyT545lbrhJ2uE= =VrBP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1364916.xAZYnupU7a--