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

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Message-ID: <1382972215.17956.30.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:56:55 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Luciano Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"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 Mon, 2013-10-28 at 09:46 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> If the device doesn't actually *have* a permanent MAC address, then it
> shouldn't be returning one via ethtool, and should return an error for
> ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR.

There's currently no provision for that, but I agree it would be better
to do so.

johannes

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