Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Martin Kaiser <> | Subject | [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: fall back to random mac address | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:55:52 +0200 |
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Call eth_random_addr to generate a random mac address if we cannot load the mac address from the efuses.
Do not use a constant mac address as fallback. This may create conflicts if we have several r8188eu devices on the network.
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx> --- drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c index 68d012a442a8..8902dda7b8d8 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c @@ -912,11 +912,10 @@ unsigned int rtl8188eu_inirp_init(struct adapter *Adapter) static void Hal_EfuseParseMACAddr_8188EU(struct adapter *adapt, u8 *hwinfo, bool AutoLoadFail) { - u8 sMacAddr[6] = {0x00, 0xE0, 0x4C, 0x81, 0x88, 0x02}; struct eeprom_priv *eeprom = &adapt->eeprompriv; if (AutoLoadFail) { - memcpy(eeprom->mac_addr, sMacAddr, ETH_ALEN); + eth_random_addr(eeprom->mac_addr); } else { /* Read Permanent MAC address */ memcpy(eeprom->mac_addr, &hwinfo[EEPROM_MAC_ADDR_88EU], ETH_ALEN); -- 2.30.2
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