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

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2023-04-04 at 10:54 +0800, Wen Gong wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't really think that it makes sense to push this to cfg80211 when
we only need it in mac80211?

johannes