* Reizer, Eyal <[email protected]> [170703 23:58]: > When working with wl18xx the nvs file is used for defining an alternate > mac address and override the default mac address that is stored inside > the wl18xx chip. > > The following commits: > c815fde wlcore: spi: Populate config firmware data > d776fc8 wlcore: sdio: Populate config firmware data > > Populated the nvs entry for wilink6 and wilink7 only while it is > still needed for wilink8 as well. > This broke user space backward compatibility when upgrading from older > kernels, as the alternate mac address would not be read from the nvs that is > already present in the file system > (lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin) > causing mac address change of the wlan interface. > > This patch fix this and update the structure field with the same default nvs > file > name that has been used before.
I think more checks on the nvs file being used are needed to avoid other nasty issues, see the comments I just made in the earlier version of this patch. Regards, Tony
