On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 19:29 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > This patch below was added to the kernel around 2/24/2015 > > I am curious mostly about the first change: I thought the > transmitter-addr relates to the radio device, not the vdev (sta, ap, > etc). It doesn't, even on real hardware. > But, wouldn't using data from the header break that assumption? > > > Is there any actual advantage to having more than one address per > hwsim radio? It seems it complicates things for no particular > reason as far as I can tell? > ?? You can do this with any regular hardware that supports multiple virtual interfaces - each one of them gets its own address. I think you might be confused by how ath*k implements the address matching - as I understand it there it's a common address (which may or may not match the programmed hardware address) along with a mask. That's not true in general though. The hwsim commit here just makes wmediumd able to behave properly when the user changed the vif interface address. johannes -- 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
