Re: [PATCH] p2p: Set MAC address of P2P device interface via vendor command

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On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 11:21 -0700, Stephen Chu wrote:
> From 7b0357dd90f9b5974779743078b3b482c98dc18b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stephen Chu <stephen.chu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 11:13:49 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] p2p: Set MAC address of P2P device interface via vendor
>  command
> 
> Supplicant uses standard linux IOCTL for setting the mac addr.  However,
> P2P device interface is a netless interface and hence this case needs
> additional handling.  The supplicant could pass down the mac address to be
> configured via vendor command to the wireless driver.  From this context,
> the wireless driver can update the p2p discovery address via iovar.

If the driver already supports nl80211, why doesn't it support a
P2P_DEVICE wdev, where the address could be set?

Or is it that we can only set it when *creating* that, and somehow the
driver has it pre-created?

johannes


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