From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>,
Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>,
Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:33:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161124083329.GB13735@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161124075104.GA26721@amd>
On Thursday 24 November 2016 08:51:04 Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > "ifconfig hw ether XX" normally sets the address. I guess that's
> > > ioctl?
> >
> > This sets temporary address and it is ioctl. IIRC same as what ethtool
> > uses. (ifconfig is already deprecated).
> >
> > > And I guess we should use similar mechanism for permanent
> > > address.
> >
> > I'm not sure here... Above ioctl ↑↑↑ is for changing temporary mac
> > address. But here we do not want to change permanent mac address. We
> > want to tell kernel driver current permanent mac address which is
> > stored
>
> Well... I'd still use similar mechanism :-).
Thats problematic, because in time when wlan0 interface is registered
into system and visible in ifconfig output it already needs to have
permanent mac address assigned.
We should assign permanent mac address before wlan0 of wl1251 is
registered into system.
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-24 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-11 17:20 wl1251 & mac address & calibration data Pali Rohár
2016-11-21 15:51 ` Pali Rohár
2016-11-22 15:22 ` Michal Kazior
2016-11-22 15:31 ` Pali Rohár
2016-11-22 16:14 ` Michal Kazior
2016-11-22 17:05 ` Pali Rohár
2016-11-23 8:24 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-11-23 22:23 ` Pavel Machek
2016-11-23 22:39 ` Pali Rohár
2016-11-24 7:51 ` Pavel Machek
2016-11-24 8:33 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2016-11-24 15:13 ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-11-24 15:20 ` Pali Rohár
2016-11-24 15:31 ` Ivaylo Dimitrov
2016-11-24 16:08 ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-11-24 16:49 ` Pali Rohár
2016-11-24 18:11 ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-11-24 18:35 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-15 8:18 ` Kalle Valo
2016-12-15 15:33 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-15 20:12 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-12-16 2:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <CAB=NE6VHF+U7DzapENvLMKtN4Dgi9J0qMoeUJ8o4vSwc2-rRFQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-16 7:25 ` Daniel Wagner
2016-12-16 10:40 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-18 10:49 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-12-18 11:04 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-18 11:54 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-12-18 12:09 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-18 20:08 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-12-20 11:47 ` Kalle Valo
2016-12-20 16:56 ` Tony Lindgren
2016-12-20 17:06 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-20 17:11 ` Kalle Valo
[not found] ` <87bmw6ttim.fsf-HodKDYzPHsUD5k0oWYwrnHL1okKdlPRT@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-20 17:21 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-01-12 8:50 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-16 10:35 ` Pali Rohár
[not found] ` <76365770-f5ba-9565-3fca-710518f64d81-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-16 10:26 ` Pali Rohár
2016-11-24 18:46 ` Aaro Koskinen
[not found] ` <20161124184601.wo4al6nyzb6rmiqs-FnsA7b+Nu9XLHDo1XOr0g3XdqJI7FyRRX3B1VOXEql0@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-26 17:17 ` Pavel Machek
2016-11-26 17:20 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-05 23:51 ` Tony Lindgren
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