On 2013-04-23 6:01 PM, Bryan Mayland wrote:
> Changesets r36353 and r36354 (backport) introduce changes in which the 
> first generated mac address has the local bit set. Previously calling 
> mac80211_generate_mac() with a macidx of 0 would get you back the same 
> original mac.
> 
> This creates a problem for my system which doesn't properly support the 
> SIOCSIFHWADDR ioctl (due to a driver issue in rtl8192cu which doesn't 
> propagate the mac address change and will discard packets for the new mac).
> 
> Is it possible for mac80211_generate_mac() to return the original mac 
> for the first iteration? If the goal of this function is to generate a 
> unique address, then the original mac is by definition a unique address.
Fixed in r36408, r36409.

Thanks,

- Felix

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