On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 06:11 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > My code expected that the key was the MAC of the radio, not the > MAC of a vif. It set up mappings accordingly in the user-space > program. > > And, if I change a vif's mac address, the previous 'key' is no longer > valid with the new patch. If I have multiple vifs on one radio > and want to send a broadcast pkt to that radio, then at best the > patched API is lame because you would have to specify the address > of one of the vifs on the radio, but it is not really destined for > just that vif. > > A fair bit of code was written, and not just by me, against the > API that assumed the MAC of the radio was a unique key. The > code can be changed of course, but if Bob's change does not > really offer any advantage, then I think the patch should > be reverted. > I guess you were trying to be much smarter than wmediumd :) Bob, any thoughts? 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
