On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:14:18PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > On 12/16/2015 09:30 AM, Adam R. Welle wrote: > > > >>Well, it was always rather awkward since it was the *second* address :) > > > >Could somebody provide background information on why the decision was > >made to use a second address for the netlink frames instead of the same > >address as was used for the non-netlink frames? > > I would be fine with always using the first address instead of the second, > in case that helps someone.
It doesn't really, that would break old wmediumd. > We could also set the address at creation time easily enough. Then it > could still be unique across many machines if you managed it. We already have a way to change mac addresses; adding a new API to change the default address seems pointless to me. -- Bob Copeland %% http://bobcopeland.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
