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From: Pali =?utf-8?q?Roh=C3=A1r?= <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:49:57 +0100
Message-ID: <201310281449.58170@pali>
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Cc: Luciano Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Monday 28 October 2013 14:45:05 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 22:34 +0200, Pali Roh=C3=A1r wrote:
> > Driver wl1251 generating mac address randomly at startup and
> > there is no way to set permanent mac address via
> > SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR. This patch export sysfs file which
> > can set permanent mac address by userspace helper program.
> > Patch is needed for devices which do not store mac address
> > in internal wl1251 eeprom.
>=20
> This doesn't really seem like a good idea since you can also
> just use 'ip' or whatever to set the MAC address.
>=20
> johannes

AFAIK you cannot set permanent address (show by ethtool -P wlan0)=20
via ip/ifconfig.

=2D-=20
Pali Roh=C3=A1r
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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