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Re: [RFC 4/5] mac80211: enforce address verification on monitors

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On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:49:39 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2013-06-07 3:36 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> From: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@xxxxx>
>> 
>> Mac address of passive monitor have to treated
>> the same as address any other interface because
>> type of interface can be changed or monitor can
>> be later put into active mode.
> It can't. There's checks preventing that. I'd prefer to leave that part
> of the code as it is, the MAC address for normal monitor interfaces
> should be ignored completely.

I must have misread the code regarding active monitors then.
Main motivation behind this patch was the first part though
- user can change type of interface and once ignored address
of monitor now becomes address of AP, sta etc. 

  -- kuba
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