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From: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] Allow live MAC address change
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:11:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <636f968e6b31abf98512c78e0a03d89d6e469e8f.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imprbc0j.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>

Hi Kalle,

> 
> As you only provided one number it's clear that you are only working
> with one driver. But for us it's not that simple, we have to support
> a
> myriad of different types of hardware and there can be complications
> and
> additions later on, even for simple features. Like the dynamic power
> save support I submitted to mac80211 over 10 years which was supposed
> to
> be simple, and still we talk almost every year how do we get it out
> of
> mac80211 as it makes maintenance difficult.

As Denis said we are happy to test other drivers, granted I do not have
*that* many cards on hand to test. I understand the kernel needs to
support all kinds of hardware, yes, but what is your concern with this
patch specifically? What kinds of issues do you foresee this causing?
Or is it that you simply don't know any you'd like to find out?

Thanks,
James


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-17 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-04 19:11 [RFC 0/4] Allow live MAC address change James Prestwood
2019-09-04 19:11 ` [RFC 1/4] nl80211: Add LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE feature James Prestwood
2019-09-04 19:11 ` [RFC 2/4] {nl|cfg}80211: Support mac change as part of SME Connect James Prestwood
2019-09-04 19:11 ` [RFC 3/4] mac80211: Support LIVE_ADDRESS_CHANGE feature James Prestwood
2019-09-04 19:11 ` [RFC 4/4] {nl,cfg}nl80211: Support mac change for mlme_authenticate James Prestwood
2019-09-11  9:09 ` [RFC 0/4] Allow live MAC address change Johannes Berg
2019-09-11 15:54   ` James Prestwood
2019-09-11 18:25     ` Johannes Berg
2019-09-11 19:20       ` James Prestwood
2019-09-13 10:24         ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-13 16:17           ` James Prestwood
2019-09-17  7:46             ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-17 15:40               ` Denis Kenzior
2019-09-17 18:44                 ` Bob Marcan
2019-09-17 18:47                   ` Ben Greear
2019-09-17 19:05                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2019-09-17 19:11                   ` Steve deRosier
2019-09-17 16:11               ` James Prestwood [this message]
2019-09-13 18:49         ` Johannes Berg

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