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

[Wen Gong]

On 4/11/2023 3:32 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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
OK. So I will try to put this in mac80211 layer, is it OK?