"Reizer, Eyal" <eyalr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The following commits:
> commit c815fdebef44 ("wlcore: spi: Populate config firmware data")
> commit d776fc86b82f ("wlcore: sdio: Populate config firmware data")
>
> Populated the nvs entry for wilink6 and wilink7 only while it is
> still needed for wilink8 as well.
> This broke user space backward compatibility when upgrading from older
> kernels, as the alternate mac address would not be read from the nvs that
> is present in the file system (lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin)
> causing mac address change of the wlan interface.
>
> This patch fix this and update the structure field with the same default
> nvs file name that has been used before.
>
> In addition, some distros hold a default wl1271-nvs.bin in the file
> system with a bogus mac address (deadbeef...) that overrides the mac
> address that is stored inside the device.
> Warn users about this bogus mac address and use the internal mac address
>
> Fixes: c815fdebef44 ("wlcore: spi: Populate config firmware data")
> Fixes: d776fc86b82f ("wlcore: sdio: Populate config firmware data")
> Signed-off-by: Eyal Reizer <eyalr@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
d382b9c00782 wlcore: add missing nvs file name info for wilink8
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