On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:49 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > This cannot possibly work We do a lot of MAC address sanity checking > at _open() time *before* the place where you inserted the MAC address > copy. I tested the patch. It works. > Deferring MAC address setting to open() time is also *very* bad for > the user experience because they no longer have the guarantee the the > MAC address they see is the one that will be used when the interface > is brought up. Users see 00:00:00:00:00:00 address before up. Anyway, Tomas pointed my assert for "iwlwifi cannot get MAC address without firmware being loaded first" is not true. So I don't need to change mac80211 to adapt this any more (not sure if other driver requires). An updated patch for iwlwifi will be sent shortly. Thanks, -yi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
