On 09/04/2014 11:33 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 10:51 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: >> I'm having issues with udev renaming newly created stations when I have >> udev rules for wlanX, when wlanX is not already existing. >> >> I think specifying MAC on station creation time would solve my problems, >> but haven't looked closely yet. >> >> My version of 'iw' doesn't support setting the MAC on creation, from >> what I can tel. >> >> Curious if anyone else is working on this? > > I think Marcel mentioned wanting this before. There's even an attribute > in nl80211 already, but it can only be used for P2P_DEVICE I believe, so > a feature flag or so would be needed to be able to know whether or not > this would be expected to take any effect (kernels before those future > changes would ignore the attribute for non-P2P-DEVICE I believe) >From what I can tell, cfg80211 does parse the macaddr for p2p-device, but I don't see it used in mac80211/iface.c ieee80211_if_add. Am I missing something? Thanks, Ben > > Haven't looked at the code right now, this is all I know. > > johannes > -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- 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
