Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Devices have a MAC address available, which is printed during boot:
>
> Not all dvb devices have a mac address.
How do I tell? If it's all zeros it's not there?
> Devices without a mac address shouldn't have a mac_dvb sysfs attribute,
> I think.
I'm not sure that's possible within the core infrastructure. It's a class
attribute set when the class is created; I'm not sure it can be overridden on
a per-device basis.
Possibly the file could return "" or "none" in this case?
> The dvb type and dvb adapter no is already present in the device name,
> I'm not sure why this needs duplicating.
They can be used with ATTR{} in udev rules. I'm not clear that the name can.
> With this patch, with a usb Hauppauge Nova-T Stick I get:
> ...
> ==> /sys/class/dvb/dvb0.demux0/dvb_mac <==
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
I can't say why that happens. I don't have access to this hardware. Should
it have a MAC address there? Is the MAC address getting stored in
dvbdev->adapter->proposed_mac? Maybe it's not getting read - on the card I
use it's read by the cx23885 driver... I think... The nova-t-usb2.c file
doesn't mention proposed_mac.
David
