| Subject | Re: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:55:22 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 14:49 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > 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.
You probably can't, but that address also doesn't matter at all and isn't really used anywhere.
johannes
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