linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address

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Message-ID: <1383004209.3779.54.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:50:09 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
CC:	Luciano Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <freemangordon@....bg>,
	<aaro.koskinen@....fi>, <pavel@....cz>, <sre@...g0.de>,
	<joni.lapilainen@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting
 permanent mac address

On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 22:34 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Driver wl1251 generating mac address randomly at startup and there is no way to
> set permanent mac address via SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR. This patch export sysfs
> file which can set permanent mac address by userspace helper program. Patch is
> needed for devices which do not store mac address in internal wl1251 eeprom.
[...]

This belongs in struct wl12xx_platform_data or (better) Device Tree
properties.  It definitely should not be settable once the device is
registered.

Ben.

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