On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 16:56 -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > the way I read the nl80211 code is that the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE > requires a wiphy device to be specified. And that is actually just a > number. So I have no idea what the MAC has to here. > OpenWrt finds a wiphy by its MAC. > Why does the wiphy need to know the MAC if it is always specified from > userspace when actually creating the new netdev interface. Works for > P2P devices, so why wouldn't it work for access point and station > mode? > A MAC can be specified for the netdev, but it is assigned to a wiphy identified by its MAC. -- 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
