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Re: [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: set interface MAC address after driver's start() is called

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On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:06 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> 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.

I know it "works". But it doesn't work when there are multiple virtual
interfaces etc.

> 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.

Great.

johannes

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