Hi, On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 05:30:06PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Ganapathi Bhat <gb...@marvell.com> writes: > > > Hi Kalle, > >> > >> > Avoid calculating random MAC address in driver. Instead make use of > >> > 'get_random_mask_addr()' function. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat <gb...@marvell.com> > >> > >> I don't see 1/2 anywhere. Did it get lost? > > > > Actually there is no 1/2. What I did is: 'git send-email'; CTRL + C
It's dependent on this patch though, which kinda should be '1/2': [PATCH] mwifiex: avoid storing random_mac in private > > (to correct a typo); and then tried sending it again. I think that > > created some problem here. Kindly let me know how to proceed. > > Ok. I'll wait for review comments and if all goes well I'll apply it in > few days. FWIW, this looks OK to me: Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannor...@chromium.org> It's just a bit strange that we have to keep our own on-stack temporary buffer for this. Maybe this could use an in-place helper too? Or (if it's really legal for us to modify the cfg80211_scan_request in-place) why doesn't the upper-layer nl80211 code do the randomization for us? Many (all?) drivers I see implementing randomization have to do this anyway; they don't use request->mac_addr directly. (Or I suppose some firmware could implement the randomization on its own someday...but would we really trust it?) Brian
