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iwlwifi: mvm: advertise randomised netdetect MAC address
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Wed, 6 May 2015 12:56:51 +0000 (14:56 +0200)
committerEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Thu, 28 May 2015 10:35:14 +0000 (13:35 +0300)
commit8e64cb5c4af080342c997aeff2327cda472ebdc8
treeddf28d041d5aa8e43fb830619dd4f90c99c600c5
parent157042e1ef2a53f46263207b2dcfdaf6efa88c19
iwlwifi: mvm: advertise randomised netdetect MAC address

According to the nl80211 documentation, we can neither advertise
scheduled scan nor netdetect address randomisation. However, all
the products that currently require this don't have a need for
the full randomisation.

Therefore, advertise the feature anyway which results in host-
based randomisation, done whenever the system suspends. This is
sufficient for the platforms currently requiring this feature.

If we ever extend this in the future to do full randomisation in
the firmware, then certainly this will still be sufficient for
the current requirements, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to
split the feature bits.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c