Re: [PATCH 16/16] wl1251: Add sysfs file address for setting permanent mac address
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2013-10-28 14:57:24
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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