On Fri, 2016-12-30 at 22:55 +0300, IgorMitsyanko wrote: > > > The driver needs to configure receive behavior to accept frames to > > the > > specified random address during the time the frame exchange is > > pending > > and such frames need to be acknowledged similarly to frames sent to > > the > > local permanent address when this random address functionality is > > not > > used. > > A (probably) silly question: how wireless drivers are supposed to use > SA > in a frame? I think drivers are not concerned about source address, > they > simply pass whatever there is already set by userspace in > cfg80211_mgmt_tx_params::buf into air on Tx. > And on Rx, they filter frames based on receiver address/BSSID, pass > it > to upper layers and do not care what address is in DA (it is handled > by > upper layers).
They do care about the DA in RX, since - as the commit message states - "such frames need to be acknowledged [...]" johannes
