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. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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