Messages in this thread | | | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:04:48 +0100 |
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On Monday 28 October 2013 15:56:55 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 09:46 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > If the device doesn't actually *have* a permanent MAC > > address, then it shouldn't be returning one via ethtool, > > and should return an error for ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR. > > There's currently no provision for that, but I agree it would > be better to do so. > > johannes
So what to do with devices which has MAC address stored in some obscure place and there is userspace binary which can read it?
I think that there should be some way to tell kernel that *this* is the permanent address and it should use it.
This is reason why I proposed patch which adding sysfs entry for setting permanent address from userspace in wl1251 driver.
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