[PATCH 10/27] wifi: mac80211: isolate driver from inactive links

[Wen Gong]

Hi johannes,

May I know some more info/status about the "incoming  new method to let 
drivers set the link address"?

On 9/9/2022 4:58 PM, Wen Gong wrote:
> On 9/9/2022 3:28 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
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>> If we just change the first link's address to the same as the MLD
>> address without any changes then the code without the changes below
>> would overwrite the link ID because it can find the link STA address,
>> even if the device already did address translation. Of course this is
>> only relevant if it does address translation w/o indicating the link,
>> which it shouldn't ... hence the patch.
>>
>> In any case, I expect this will end up being some kind of driver policy,
>> so I can imagine that we could make a relatively simple patch with a new
>> method to let drivers set the link address that gets used. It cannot be
>> changing the link address when it's added to the driver since this patch
>> that this thread is based on means the driver doesn't get to know about
>> the links until it's far too late (and even before this patch, the links
>> were only created after assoc, when the link addresses were already sent
>> to the AP)
> Thanks for the incoming  new method to let drivers set the link address.
> It is better to let driver to fill all the links' address in load phase.
> And then it never change again. And one of the address array is always
> used for primary link.
>
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