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Re: [PATCH 1/6] mac80211: allow no mac address until firmware load

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On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 11:22 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 16:57 +0200, Luis Carlos Cobo wrote:
> > Originally by Johannes Berg. This patch adds support for devices that do not
> > report their MAC address until the firmware is loaded. While the address is not
> > known, a multicast on is used.
> 
> Johannes, thoughts on this?  Is there a better way to do it for devices
> that don't know their MAC address until firmware load?

I actually wrote this patch, but largely I don't care. It seemed that
having unique MAC addresses would screw up less with udev, but maybe we
can just leave it zeroed until we know?

johannes

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