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

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On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:44 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Well, I think that really is pretty weird and it is confusing to the
> user to see that pseudo random MAC that changes suddenly when the device is
> initialized. For the human user (so everybody but me), it would be better
> to have the MAC all-zeros until the firmware loaded. So it would be obvious
> that the MAC is not set, yet. I think userspace

The problem is that all-zeroes is actually a valid mac address, owned by
Xerox (http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt) Not that it will
probably cause us any problem, but a multicast address is afaik an
invalid mac for a device. Should we go for 01:allzeros?


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Luis Carlos Cobo Rus       GnuPG ID: 44019B60
cozybit Inc.


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