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    mac80211_hwsim: add permanent mac address option for new radios · cb1a5bae
    Benjamin Beichler authored
    If simulation needs predictable permanent mac addresses of hwsim wireless
    phy, this patch add the ability to create a new radio with a user defined
    permanent mac address. Allowed mac addresses needs to be locally
    administrated mac addresses (as also the former fixed 42:* and 02:* were).
    
    To do not break the operation with legacy software using hwsim, the new
    address is set twice. The problem here is, the netlink call backs use
    wiphy->addresses[1] as identification of a radio and not the proposed
    permanent address (wiphy->addresses[0]). This design decision is not
    documented in the kernel repo, therefore this patch simply reproduces this,
    but with the same address.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Beichler <benjamin.beichler@uni-rostock.de>
    [make pointer const]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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