diff --git a/drivers/ieee802154/Makefile b/drivers/ieee802154/Makefile
index 68999137dedfe24cb7044d6de38b6e4f6f8193c5..800a3894af0dd72190f5ad0e3bdadc32111219a3 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee802154/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/ieee802154/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_IEEE802154_FAKEHARD) += fakehard.o
-
-ccflags-y := -DDEBUG -DCONFIG_FFD
diff --git a/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c b/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
index a5a49a1baae7227ce754a9a10806fa61e1262346..eb0e2ccc79ae6c3098cdb065511b047218b0c6a0 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
+++ b/drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c
@@ -370,8 +370,6 @@ static int __devinit ieee802154fake_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	phy->dev.platform_data = dev;
-
 	memcpy(dev->dev_addr, "\xba\xbe\xca\xfe\xde\xad\xbe\xef",
 			dev->addr_len);
 	memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c b/net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c
index 6df6ecf4970876b54ef16acac3a971fdaf1d333c..40e606f3788f11f5dcdeb59420ff18a4ec24eab1 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static int ieee802154_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	struct packet_type *pt, struct net_device *orig_dev)
 {
 	if (!netif_running(dev))
-		return -ENODEV;
+		goto drop;
 	pr_debug("got frame, type %d, dev %p\n", dev->type, dev);
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	print_hex_dump_bytes("ieee802154_rcv ", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, skb->data, skb->len);
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/dgram.c b/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
index 1a3334c2609a194015eec5b6b85c943fccc1ca92..faecf648123f7bc9bf5ae7a3913c737a89ea4841 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * ZigBee socket interface
+ * IEEE 802.15.4 dgram socket interface
  *
  * Copyright 2007, 2008 Siemens AG
  *
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index 02548b292b53bf416f4e0ced8daeeb9e842666e3..c64a38d57aa36c4b521fd06c7a9c8c46bd0f337b 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/if_arp.h>
 #include <net/netlink.h>
 #include <net/genetlink.h>
 #include <net/wpan-phy.h>
@@ -213,12 +214,37 @@ static int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 	}
 
+	if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_HW_ADDR] &&
+	    nla_len(info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_HW_ADDR]) !=
+			IEEE802154_ADDR_LEN) {
+		rc = -EINVAL;
+		goto nla_put_failure;
+	}
+
 	dev = phy->add_iface(phy, devname);
 	if (IS_ERR(dev)) {
 		rc = PTR_ERR(dev);
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 	}
 
+	if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_HW_ADDR]) {
+		struct sockaddr addr;
+
+		addr.sa_family = ARPHRD_IEEE802154;
+		nla_memcpy(&addr.sa_data, info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_HW_ADDR],
+				IEEE802154_ADDR_LEN);
+
+		/*
+		 * strangely enough, some callbacks (inetdev_event) from
+		 * dev_set_mac_address require RTNL_LOCK
+		 */
+		rtnl_lock();
+		rc = dev_set_mac_address(dev, &addr);
+		rtnl_unlock();
+		if (rc)
+			goto dev_unregister;
+	}
+
 	NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, IEEE802154_ATTR_PHY_NAME, wpan_phy_name(phy));
 	NLA_PUT_STRING(msg, IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_NAME, dev->name);
 
@@ -228,6 +254,11 @@ static int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	return ieee802154_nl_reply(msg, info);
 
+dev_unregister:
+	rtnl_lock(); /* del_iface must be called with RTNL lock */
+	phy->del_iface(phy, dev);
+	dev_put(dev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
 nla_put_failure:
 	nlmsg_free(msg);
 out_dev: