From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
bcm43xx devel <Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:20:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100318202052.GD17357@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003182031.25013.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:31:24PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:46:35 Larry Finger wrote:
> > It it reasonable to keep the vendor portion of the MAC and only replace the
> > "serial number", or would it be better to randomize all 6 octants?
>
> I think it doesn't really matter.
It might be a good idea to set the LAA bit...?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-18 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-18 17:46 RFC: A workaround for BCM43XX devices with no on-board SPROM Larry Finger
2010-03-18 19:31 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-18 20:20 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-03-18 20:31 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-18 21:38 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-19 7:36 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-18 20:51 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2010-03-18 20:53 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-18 21:10 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-18 21:20 ` Johannes Berg
2010-03-18 21:47 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-19 18:40 ` Kalle Valo
2010-03-19 19:08 ` [PATCH] ssb: do not read SPROM if it does not exist John W. Linville
2010-03-19 19:41 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-19 19:46 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-19 20:21 ` John W. Linville
2010-03-19 20:30 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-19 20:31 ` John W. Linville
2010-03-19 20:33 ` [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
2010-03-19 20:41 ` [PATCH v3] " John W. Linville
2010-03-19 21:12 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-19 22:10 ` John W. Linville
2010-03-19 22:10 ` [PATCH v4] " John W. Linville
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