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

[Wen Gong]

On 10/11/2022 3:26 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 12:07 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:
>> On 9/28/2022 11:28 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> ...
>>>> May I know some more info/status about the "incoming  new method to let
>>>> drivers set the link address"?
>>>>
>>> I wasn't actually planning to work on that myself, FWIW.
>>>
>>> johannes
>> OK. So has some body will work for that now?😁
>>
> Yes, I don't personally have a need for anything other than what we have
> right now.

May I add method to let low-drivers set the primay link address like below?

I add a field in struct wiphy_iftype_ext_capab, if it is valid, then it 
will be used as

local primary/assoc link addr in function ieee80211_mgd_setup_link() for 
station.

--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -5079,6 +5079,7 @@ struct wiphy_iftype_ext_capab {
         u8 extended_capabilities_len;
         u16 eml_capabilities;
         u16 mld_capa_and_ops;
+       struct mac_address assoc_link_addr;
  };

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