Re: [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data

From	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data
Date	2017-01-27 11:10 +0100
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On Friday 27 January 2017 09:56:09 Kalle Valo wrote:
> Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > In case there is no valid MAC address kernel generates random one. This
> > patch propagate this generated MAC address back to NVS data which will be
> > uploaded to wl1251 chip. So HW would have same MAC address as linux kernel
> > uses.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> 
> Why? What issue does this fix?

Send permanent MAC address to wl1251 chip, same what is doing wl12xx
driver.

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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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Re: [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-01-27 09:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-01-27 10:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-01-27 11:10 +0100

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