From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb: Clean up extraction of MAC addresses from SPROM
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:37:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808211537.48800.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48ac9e72.4qL3A3C1AOiGC/YJ%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
On Thursday 21 August 2008 00:45:06 Larry Finger wrote:
> Only rev 1 and 2 ssb SPROMs have fields named et0mac and et1mac;
> however, all of the extraction routines extract pseudo data for these
> fields from regions that are all 1's resulting in a hardware address
> of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. This patch forces such a fill at the beginning of
> the data extraction process, and only does the formal extraction if the
> SPROM rev is 1 or 2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> ---
ack
--
Greetings Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 13:38 UTC|newest]
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2008-08-20 22:45 [PATCH] ssb: Clean up extraction of MAC addresses from SPROM Larry Finger
2008-08-21 13:37 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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