On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:05 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Johannes Berg > <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If a device has multiple MAC addresses, userspace will > > need to know about that. Similarly, if it allows the > > MAC addresses to vary by a bitmask. > > > > If a driver exports multiple addresses, it is assumed > > that it will be able to deal with that many different > > addresses, which need not necessarily match the ones > > programmed into the device; if a mask is set then the > > device should deal addresses within that mask based > > on an arbitrary "base address". > > > > To test it all and show how it is used, add support > > to hwsim even though it can't actually deal with > > addresses different from the default. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Any reason to not export this via nl80211? Laziness, and the fact that we only exported it in sysfs before. > Can we say, use this on Atheros devices for storage of the bssid mask? That was the intention of the mask, yes. johannes
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