BACKPORT: mac80211_hwsim: add permanent mac address option for new radios
If simulation needs predictable permanent mac addresses of hwsim wireless phy, this patch add the ability to create a new radio with a user defined permanent mac address. Allowed mac addresses needs to be locally administrated mac addresses (as also the former fixed 42:* and 02:* were). To do not break the operation with legacy software using hwsim, the new address is set twice. The problem here is, the netlink call backs use wiphy->addresses[1] as identification of a radio and not the proposed permanent address (wiphy->addresses[0]). This design decision is not documented in the kernel repo, therefore this patch simply reproduces this, but with the same address. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Beichler <benjamin.beichler@uni-rostock.de> [make pointer const] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Change-Id: Idff4d3269746470c076e6998351044711cf29a0f (cherry picked from commit d6228c99eec0b291d139a72498516cc23ec880c1)
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