Re: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for settingpermanent mac address

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Oct 28 2013 - 10:57:29 EST


On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 09:46 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> If the device doesn't actually *have* a permanent MAC address, then it
> shouldn't be returning one via ethtool, and should return an error for
> ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR.

There's currently no provision for that, but I agree it would be better
to do so.

johannes

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