From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ssb: Generic SPROM override for devices without SPROM
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:19:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B06CF9B.4040201@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911201511.11042.mb@bu3sch.de>
On 11/20/2009 08:11 AM, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> I think we probably have to drop this patch and instead do a mechanism that
> fetches the sprom from userspace, if the card doesn't have one. This way we
> can have a script in userspace that generates the image based on the PCI ID
> information and just randomizes the MAC address once. The firmware loading
> mechanism would be useful for that.
> In case of an embedded device with the MAC in the nvram, the kernel can still
> override the mac address provided by userspace.
>
Your patch may be OK. You can get the serial number for the system from
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial or the UUID from
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid. Either would work as the initialization for the
hash.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-20 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-20 11:12 [PATCH RFC] ssb: Generic SPROM override for devices without SPROM Michael Buesch
2009-11-20 11:38 ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-20 11:44 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-20 14:05 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-20 14:11 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-20 14:16 ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-20 14:51 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-20 17:19 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-11-20 14:34 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2009-11-20 14:50 ` Ehud Gavron
2009-11-20 14:55 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-24 8:51 ` Oncaphillis
2009-11-24 10:52 ` Michael Buesch
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