Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:26:55 -0500
From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "Adam R. Welle" <arwelle@cert.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on "mac80211_hwsim: support any address in userspace"
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:14:18PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 09:30 AM, Adam R. Welle wrote:
> >
> >>Well, it was always rather awkward since it was the *second* address :)
> >
> >Could somebody provide background information on why the decision was
> >made to use a second address for the netlink frames instead of the same
> >address as was used for the non-netlink frames?
> 
> I would be fine with always using the first address instead of the second,
> in case that helps someone.

It doesn't really, that would break old wmediumd.

> We could also set the address at creation time easily enough.  Then it
> could still be unique across many machines if you managed it.

We already have a way to change mac addresses; adding a new API to change
the default address seems pointless to me.

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