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Re: brcmfmac: set wiphy's addresses to provide valid MACs

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> Broadcom's firmware requires every BSS to use MAC address with unique
> last few bits. The amount of bits may depend on a particular firmware,
> it was verified to be 2 for BCM43602 one.
> If this condition won't be fulfilled firmware will reject such MAC:
> brcmfmac: _brcmf_set_mac_address: Setting cur_etheraddr failed, -52
> 
> We don't want to simply set addr_mask as it would also disallow using
> locally administrated bit. Instead let's build a list of addresses
> manually enabling 0x2 bit for extra interfaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafa? Mi?ecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.

Kalle Valo
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