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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address
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    On Monday 28 October 2013 14:45:05 Johannes Berg wrote:
    > 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 doesn't really seem like a good idea since you can also
    > just use 'ip' or whatever to set the MAC address.
    >
    > johannes

    AFAIK you cannot set permanent address (show by ethtool -P wlan0)
    via ip/ifconfig.

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    Pali Rohár
    pali.rohar@gmail.com
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