From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <ath6kl-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Passing a custom MAC to ath6kl
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc4pf1ln.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D6E484.9060000@digi.com> (Hector Palacios's message of "Fri, 5 Jul 2013 17:21:40 +0200")
Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com> writes:
> Is there a way to pass a custom MAC address to the ath6kl upstream driver?
Not right now. It has been a common feature request so I'm hoping
someone will implement it soon.
> In the ISC version of the driver, a softmac.c file is provided that
> reads a MAC from a file if a module parameter softmac_enable=1 is
> passed. Is there any reason why this has not made it upstream?
Providing mac address through a file is too ugly for upstream. We need
to implement it properly using the proper interface.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-05 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 15:21 Passing a custom MAC to ath6kl Hector Palacios
2013-07-05 15:49 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2013-07-05 15:56 ` Hector Palacios
2013-07-05 18:02 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-07-05 20:23 ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-29 11:14 ` Priti
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