On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 01:12:22PM +0200, Mathias Kresin wrote: > 2016-08-25 11:33 GMT+02:00 Stanislaw Gruszka <sgrus...@redhat.com>: > > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:19:22AM +0200, Mathias Kresin wrote: > > > The EEPROM used on some CPEs has for every device the same generic > > > ralink mac in EEPROM and needs to be overridden. > > > > I don't know what is CPE, but even if I would know that, I most likely > > sill will not understand that description. > > Well, seams to me the commit message can be improved. If a v2 is > required or a v2 is required because of the commit message, I'll take > care of it.
Please do. > CPE = Customer Premises Equipment or the small plastic box from your > ISP at home. The whole point of the patch is that the MAC stored in > the wifi EEPROM might not be unique and need to be overridden. I'm > aware of three different "home router", where each model has the same > generic ralink MAC address stored in the wifi EEPROM. This can cause > nasty issues. I think we still want MAC from EEPROM instead of random one on systems without OF. Otherwise we could just use random MAC every time, but this does not seems lika a good idea. Can we check against that particular MAC that repeats on those CPEs and if it match use random one ? Or use some other identification to find out that EEPROM MAC is not good ? > > Shouldn't use dev_of_node(&rt2x00dev->dev) and check against NULL ? > > Not sure if dev_of_node() is meant to be used by every driver. Or at > least the function is only used by base stuff and not by any driver. > > The NULL check doesn't seam to me required. The of_node is finally > passed to __of_find_property which does the NULL check before using > of_node. Ok. Thanks Stanislaw
