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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com>
Subject: Re: Passing a custom MAC to ath6kl
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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:56 +0300
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Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com> writes:

> Is there a way to pass a custom MAC address to the ath6kl upstream driver?

Not right now. It has been a common feature request so I'm hoping
someone will implement it soon.

> In the ISC version of the driver, a softmac.c file is provided that
> reads a MAC from a file if a module parameter softmac_enable=1 is
> passed. Is there any reason why this has not made it upstream?

Providing mac address through a file is too ugly for upstream. We need
to implement it properly using the proper interface.

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Kalle Valo