RE: [PATCH] wifi: rtw88: use firmware MAC address as fallback

From: Ping-Ke Shih

Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 22:34:06 EST


(Please in plain text and not top posting)

raspberrykan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <raspberrykan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Please share the board and WiFi chip you are using.
> The board is a Xiaomi Mi Box 4 based on the Amlogic S905L SoC, and the
> WiFi chip is an RTL8723DS.
> On this device, the actual WiFi MAC address is stored in the S905L
> SoC's eFuse rather than in the RTL8723DS efuse. The platform firmware
> provides this MAC address to the device, so I am using
> device_get_mac_address() as a fallback when the MAC address read by
> rtw88 is invalid.

Please share it in commit message.

> The kernel tree I used for testing is also available here:
> https://github.com/Raspberry-Monster/linux

I see the top commit of [1]. The mac_ret is also missed. How can you
test it?

[1] https://github.com/Raspberry-Monster/linux/commits/rtw88-dt-mac/