From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
David Gnedt <david.gnedt@davizone.at>,
Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>,
Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>,
Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:05:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170127090538.GB24223@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inp1ndgm.fsf@codeaurora.org>
On Friday 27 January 2017 09:56:09 Kalle Valo wrote:
> Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > In case there is no valid MAC address kernel generates random one. This
> > patch propagate this generated MAC address back to NVS data which will be
> > uploaded to wl1251 chip. So HW would have same MAC address as linux kernel
> > uses.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
>
> Why? What issue does this fix?
Send permanent MAC address to wl1251 chip, same what is doing wl12xx
driver.
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-27 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-24 16:52 [PATCH 0/6] wl1251: Fix MAC address for Nokia N900 Pali Rohár
[not found] ` <1482598381-16513-1-git-send-email-pali.rohar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-24 16:52 ` [PATCH 1/6] firmware: Add request_firmware_prefer_user() function Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data Pali Rohár
2016-12-25 20:15 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-12-25 20:46 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-26 15:43 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-26 16:04 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-26 16:35 ` Pavel Machek
2017-01-03 17:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-03 19:02 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-05-04 2:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-12 20:55 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 7:33 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 8:58 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 9:43 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 10:05 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 10:10 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 10:19 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 10:34 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 11:49 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 11:57 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 12:26 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 12:53 ` Arend Van Spriel
2017-01-27 13:16 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 13:11 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 15:23 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 15:41 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 19:40 ` Pavel Machek
2017-01-30 17:53 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-01-30 18:03 ` Pali Rohár
[not found] ` <20170130175309.GY7403-4v6yS6AI5VpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-31 6:35 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-31 15:59 ` Tony Lindgren
2017-02-01 8:33 ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-01 9:35 ` Michal Kazior
2017-01-29 17:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-27 12:03 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/6] wl1251: Update wl->nvs_len after wl->nvs is valid Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:02 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 16:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] wl1251: Parse and use MAC address from supplied NVS data Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:14 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 18:40 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 7:54 ` Kalle Valo
2016-12-24 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/6] wl1251: Generate random MAC address only if driver does not have valid Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:08 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 18:38 ` Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 16:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data Pali Rohár
2016-12-24 18:17 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-24 18:44 ` Pali Rohár
2017-01-27 7:56 ` Kalle Valo
2017-01-27 9:05 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2017-01-27 9:30 ` Kalle Valo
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] wl1251: Fix MAC address for Nokia N900 Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] wl1251: Update wl->nvs_len after wl->nvs is valid Pali Rohár
2018-02-27 13:51 ` [v2,1/6] " Kalle Valo
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] wl1251: Generate random MAC address only if driver does not have valid Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] wl1251: Parse and use MAC address from supplied NVS data Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to " Pali Rohár
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] firmware: Add request_firmware_prefer_user() function Pali Rohár
2017-11-10 20:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-10 20:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-10 21:08 ` Pali Rohár
2017-11-10 23:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-09 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data Pali Rohár
2018-01-02 19:23 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] wl1251: Fix MAC address for Nokia N900 Pali Rohár
2018-01-05 1:45 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-01-27 14:14 ` Pali Rohár
2018-02-19 8:27 ` Kalle Valo
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