[PATCH V2 21/23] nl80211: verify P2P-GO/CLIENT address with all interface addresses

[Arend van Spriel]

On 06/30/13 09:43, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:08:08AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> With P2P Device support there will be two interfaces with their
>> own mac address. The P2P interface address must be unique so verify
>> it is.
>
> Could you please clarify the thinking behind this one? The P2P Interface
> Address shall be unique for each group and it shall not match any
> non-P2P station/AP interface address. However, a P2P Interface Address
> can be same as the P2P Device Address and for many cases, it is more
> resource friendly (e.g., firmware memory and RX filtering) to use the
> same address when possible.

Hi Jouni,

Good point. The P2P interface address and P2P device address only need 
to be different if one would want to do P2P management and have a group 
connection concurrently (correct me if I am wrong here, maybe it is a 
restriction for brcm firmware only) so the check seems a bit too 
restrictive.

Regards,
Arend