mac80211: allow driver to prevent two stations w/ same address
Some devices or drivers cannot deal with having the same station
address for different virtual interfaces, say as a client to two
virtual AP interfaces. Rather than requiring each driver with a
limitation like that to enforce it, add a hardware flag for it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 760bc4d..8628118 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1901,6 +1901,11 @@
* @IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS: The device/driver provides TX status
* for sent beacons.
*
+ * @IEEE80211_HW_NEEDS_UNIQUE_STA_ADDR: Hardware (or driver) requires that each
+ * station has a unique address, i.e. each station entry can be identified
+ * by just its MAC address; this prevents, for example, the same station
+ * from connecting to two virtual AP interfaces at the same time.
+ *
* @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays
*/
enum ieee80211_hw_flags {
@@ -1936,6 +1941,7 @@
IEEE80211_HW_TDLS_WIDER_BW,
IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_AMSDU_IN_AMPDU,
IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_TX_STATUS,
+ IEEE80211_HW_NEEDS_UNIQUE_STA_ADDR,
/* keep last, obviously */
NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS