> The idea is to eliminate the situation where anyone "should be careful to > not set the > MAC twice". > If there is MAC from NVS, make it system wide, w/o need to care about it. On > the other hand, > if MAC set by `ifconfig' same story, make it system wide. No one has to set the MAC address twice. This patch degrades gracefully - if there is no NVS file on disk, no harm done. This means a solution that only uses ifconfig or TESTMODE commands before adding an interface will also work. This patch only gives one the option to set the MAC address right when the HW is initialized, without resorting to scripts or usermode daemons. One has to simply put the NVS file on the filesystem and the MAC will be read from there. I found this easier from an engineering perspective. Note that even without this patch its possible to set the MAC address twice - use ifconfig, add a monitor interface and then use ifconfig again to change the MAC. Regards, Arik -- 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
