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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Brent Roman <brent@mbari.org>,  linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: rtw88 driver support for rtl8723ds does not work on Radxa RockPi-S
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:03:47 +0200
In-Reply-To: <99fc641f-f73a-4fa6-b3c1-1c19ac697602@lwfinger.net> (Larry
	Finger's message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:40:43 -0600")
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Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:

> On 2/19/24 02:24, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Brent Roman <brent@mbari.org> writes:
>>=20
>>> Yes, that's all true.=C2=A0 However... Random MAC address assignment te=
nds
>>> to cause devices to be assigned a different IP address on each reboot.
>>> This often doesn't play nicely with port forwarding.
>> Sure, I wasn't claiming that using random addresses is the perfect
>> solution. But you could also set a fixed random address from user space
>> (hopefully that works with rtw88).
>
> That will require a new module parameter, which the community does not wa=
nt.

Where is the new module parameter needed? I was thinking about changing
the mac address using the standard interface, for example 'ip' tool or
similar. I think mac80211 supports that (see ieee80211_change_mage) but
I haven't tested it.

I'm worried that we are talking about different things here so maybe
it's best that I'll wait for the actual patch before commenting more.

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