netdev - SIOCGIFHWADDR for wireless returns ARPHRD

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Message-ID: <Zf1IvSo3LzmsumHr@legohost>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:00:45 +0300
From: Oleg <lego12239@...dex.ru>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: SIOCGIFHWADDR for wireless returns ARPHRD_ETHER

Hi, all.

We found that SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl call for wireless device returns ARPHRD_ETHER
instead of ARPHRD_IEEE80211 in ifr_hwaddr.sa_family. Is this normal?

Thanks.

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Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)