On 11/20/2009 08:11 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: > > I think we probably have to drop this patch and instead do a mechanism that > fetches the sprom from userspace, if the card doesn't have one. This way we > can have a script in userspace that generates the image based on the PCI ID > information and just randomizes the MAC address once. The firmware loading > mechanism would be useful for that. > In case of an embedded device with the MAC in the nvram, the kernel can still > override the mac address provided by userspace. > Your patch may be OK. You can get the serial number for the system from /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial or the UUID from /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid. Either would work as the initialization for the hash. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
