From: "Reizer, Eyal" <eyalr@ti.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk>
CC: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
        "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] wlcore: add missing nvs file name info for wilink8
Thread-Topic: [PATCH] wlcore: add missing nvs file name info for wilink8
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:38:13 +0000
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> >
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 01:06:54AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > > > Not sure if this really is a regression as we've always had a bogus
> > > > > wl1271-nvs.bin in linux-firmware.git. Sure would be nice to fix it,
> > > > > but going back to using a generic wl1271-nvs.bin sure does not seem
> > > > > like a good long term fix to me :)
> > > > A lot of legacy here...
> > > > Wl1271-nvs has been used mainly with wilink6/7 and indeed was device
> specific
> > > > Holding calibration info etc.
> > > > When they started with wilink8 the device specific configuration that was
> > > > Part of it has switched to wl18xx-conf.bin and using the wlaconf tool for
> setting it.
> > > > Also there is no calibration specific info per device with wilink8 so the
> wl18xx-conf.bin
> > > > The only thing left in wl1271-nvs.bin for wilink8 was the mac address
> override.
> > >
> > > And the default wl1271-nvs.bin sets the mac address to a bogus deadbeef
> address,
> > > so it's wrong to use and totally broken for distros :(
> >
> > So use something like the following pseudo-code?
> >
> > if (fw->mac_address == deadbeef) {
> >     fw->mac_address = get_random_mac();

Deadbeef0000 is a valid mac address, so I suggest detecting it and warning
the user of the bogus (default) nvs but don't attempt to get a random mac
address for him as it has to many rules (registered oui addresses etc.)

> >     dev_warn(dev, "Detected unconfigured wl1271-nvs.bin.\n"
> >         "Your device will run with limited performance.\n"
> >         "Please use ti-utils to configure your device.\n");
> > }
> 
> Yeah something like that should do the trick  :)
> 

Seems logical, will submit a v3 using wl1271-nvs.bin for wl18xx while adding this
Check/warn.

Best Regards,
Eyal