Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/20/2009 05:12 AM, Michael Buesch wrote:
This patch adds a generic mechanism for overriding the SPROM mechanism
on devices without SPROM hardware.
There currently is a major problem with this:
It tries to deduce a MAC address from various hardware parameters. But
currently it will result in the same MAC address for machines of the same
type. Does somebody have an idea of some device-instance specific serial
number or something similar that could be hashed into the MAC?
You might look at the "root=" part of /proc/cmdline. Mine says
"root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK2546GSX_18C2P0KCT-part1". That disk serial
number would certainly be unique. Even if it just said "root=/dev/sda1", it
would be repeatable.
Larry
How does WL do it? Broadcom *has* to generate a MAC address that is
both unique and in its assigned range. If we can do the same thing in
B43 that would be ideal.
E
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