Re: [PATCH] allow setting wiphy.perm_addr after driver probe

[Jonas Gorski]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
>>> the way I read the nl80211 code is that the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE
>>> requires a wiphy device to be specified. And that is actually just a
>>> number. So I have no idea what the MAC has to here.
>>>
>> OpenWrt finds a wiphy by its MAC.
>
> maybe that is the first problem right there. I see that over sysfs you get phy80211/macaddress. However if you do a dump via NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY then you do not have the MAC address there.

OpenWrt nowadays uses the device path in sysfs/devices to identify
wiphys, not the mac anymore (e.g 'pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/ssb0:0').


Jonas
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