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From:   Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2023 15:24:35 +0100
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Subject: wilc1000 MAC address is 00:00:00:00:00:00
To:     Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>,
        Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
Cc:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

I'm using the WILC1000 wifi and with NetworkManager [1] I see issues
in certain situations I see problems.

I was able to reduce the problem and have now found out that the cause
is that the interface has the HW MAC address is 00:00:00:00:00 after
startup. Only when the interface is startup (ip link set dev wlan0
up), the driver sets a "valid" address.

Is this a valid behavior and shouldn't the address already be set
after loading the driver?

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1200

-- 
Heiko