On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:39:08AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Some recent BCM43XX devices lack an on-board SPROM. The pertinent data > from the SPROM could be included in the kernel; however, this presents > a problem in the generation of a unique, reproducible MAC address. The > solution is to initialize the address to a known, workable value. Thus, > the device will work without any further code. For an address that is > preserved across reloads or reboots, a set of udev routines has been > prepared that detect the special address and assign a random value that > is preserved in a second udev rule file. The random address should be > unique except for the case where a given box has more than one of these > cards. This case is handles by adding the DEVPATH to the recognition rules. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Do we still want this patch? Or do we think all the cases of a "missing" SPROM were actually a "relocated" SPROM? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
