Hi johannes,
May I know some more info/status about the "incoming new method to let
drivers set the link address"?
On 9/9/2022 4:58 PM, Wen Gong wrote:
On 9/9/2022 3:28 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
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If we just change the first link's address to the same as the MLD
address without any changes then the code without the changes below
would overwrite the link ID because it can find the link STA address,
even if the device already did address translation. Of course this is
only relevant if it does address translation w/o indicating the link,
which it shouldn't ... hence the patch.
In any case, I expect this will end up being some kind of driver policy,
so I can imagine that we could make a relatively simple patch with a new
method to let drivers set the link address that gets used. It cannot be
changing the link address when it's added to the driver since this patch
that this thread is based on means the driver doesn't get to know about
the links until it's far too late (and even before this patch, the links
were only created after assoc, when the link addresses were already sent
to the AP)
Thanks for the incoming new method to let drivers set the link address.
It is better to let driver to fill all the links' address in load phase.
And then it never change again. And one of the address array is always
used for primary link.
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