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From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] wl1251: Set generated MAC address back to NVS data
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:05:38 +0100
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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>,
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To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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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.

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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com