From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ssb: Implement virtual SPROM on disk
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:45:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA80118.1070801@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003222325.35994.mb@bu3sch.de>
Michael,
Would the following be sufficient?
(1) The utility /bin/dbus-uuidgen is used to create a file
/lib/firmware/ssb/mac_address. The command to create this file if it does not
exist could be added to the scripts that use fwcutter.
(2) In drivers/ssb/pci.c, the firmware loading process reads the file, then
modifies it using the bus address.
I think this process would create a persistent MAC address that is unique within
the box, with a small probability of being duplicated on another machine.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 23:22 [PATCH V2] ssb: Implement virtual SPROM on disk Larry Finger
2010-03-22 6:28 ` Calvin Walton
2010-03-22 8:37 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-22 15:06 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-22 21:55 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-22 22:19 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-22 22:28 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-22 21:56 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-22 22:25 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-22 23:45 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-03-23 8:52 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-23 14:25 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-23 20:58 ` Calvin Walton
2010-03-23 22:02 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-24 14:16 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-24 19:21 ` Michael Buesch
2010-03-26 3:47 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-28 17:14 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2010-03-28 18:25 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-28 19:04 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2010-03-29 0:33 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-24 1:25 ` Ehud Gavron
2010-03-23 8:55 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-03-23 11:43 ` Michael Buesch
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