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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:31:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k_hw: Fix STA (AR9485) bringup issue due to incorrect
 MAC address
To: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Senthil Balasubramanian
<senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Due to some recent optimization done in the way the mac address
> bytes are written into the OTP memory, some AR9485 chipsets were
> forced to use the first byte from the eeprom template and as AR9485
> happens to use generic eeprom template which has 0x1 as the first
> byte causes issues in bringing up the card.
>
> So fixed the eeprom template accordingly to address the issue.
>
> Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>

I don't follow the description too well, all I can tell from it is
that there is an issue if the template has 0x01 set instead of 0x0 but
it doesn't tell me why.

 Luis