Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:28:26 -0700
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: "Reizer, Eyal" <eyalr@ti.com>
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>,
        "sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk" 
        <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk>,
        Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [v6] wlcore: add missing nvs file name info for wilink8
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* Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [170809 10:26]:
> * Reizer, Eyal <eyalr@ti.com> [170809 00:55]:
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c
> > @@ -6040,6 +6040,21 @@ static int wl1271_register_hw(struct wl1271 *wl)
> >  		nic_addr = wl->fuse_nic_addr + 1;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	if (oui_addr == 0xdeadbe && nic_addr == 0xef0000) {
> > +		wl1271_warning("Detected unconfigured mac address in nvs.\n"
> > +				"derive from fuse instead.\n"
> > +				"in case of using a wl12xx device, your "
> > +				"device performance may not be optimized.\n"
> > +				"Please use the calibrator tool to configure "
> > +				"your device.\n"
> > +				"When using a wl18xx device this default nvs "
> > +				"file can be removed from the file system\n");
> > +
> > +		oui_addr = wl->fuse_oui_addr;
> > +		/* fuse has the BD_ADDR, the WLAN addresses are the next two */
> > +		nic_addr = wl->fuse_nic_addr + 1;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	wl12xx_derive_mac_addresses(wl, oui_addr, nic_addr);
> 
> I just gave this a quick try on omap3-evm with wl1271, now I get
> mac address of 00:00:00:00:00:01 :) So looks like at least wl1271 needs
> to use the random mac address here.
> 
> Note that we should now have struct wilink_family_data available
> so maybe that can be used to check if the hardware mac address
> exists?

Or actually, in the case where no hardawre mac address exists,
the mac is all zeroes at this point it seems. So maybe that
can be used to determine if a random mac address should be used
here.

Regards,

Tony