Commit b5dfae02 authored Oct 22, 2014 by Ben Greear Committed by Johannes Berg Oct 27, 2014

mac80211: support creating vifs with specified mac address



This is useful when creating virtual interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent e8f479b1

net/mac80211/iface.c

+4 −1

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		@@ -1671,6 +1671,9 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local local, const char name,
		}

		ieee80211_assign_perm_addr(local, ndev->perm_addr, type);
		if (params && is_valid_ether_addr(params->macaddr))
		memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, params->macaddr, ETH_ALEN);
		else
		memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN);
		SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy));

net/mac80211/main.c

+1 −0

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		@@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm(size_t priv_data_len,
		NL80211_FEATURE_SAE \|
		NL80211_FEATURE_HT_IBSS \|
		NL80211_FEATURE_VIF_TXPOWER \|
		NL80211_FEATURE_MAC_ON_CREATE \|
		NL80211_FEATURE_USERSPACE_MPM;

		if (!ops->hw_scan)