On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Neat thanks :) Luis -- 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
