Commit b655b838 authored by Michael Straube's avatar Michael Straube Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: rtl8723bs: fall back to random mac address



Use a random mac address if we cannot load it from the efuses.

Do not use a constant mac address as fallback. This may create conflicts
if we have several rtl8723bs devices on the network.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 622c8110
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@@ -1014,14 +1014,10 @@ static void Hal_EfuseParseMACAddr_8723BS(
	struct adapter *padapter, u8 *hwinfo, bool AutoLoadFail
)
{
	u16 i;
	u8 sMacAddr[6] = {0x00, 0xE0, 0x4C, 0xb7, 0x23, 0x00};
	struct eeprom_priv *pEEPROM = GET_EEPROM_EFUSE_PRIV(padapter);

	if (AutoLoadFail) {
/* 		sMacAddr[5] = (u8)GetRandomNumber(1, 254); */
		for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
			pEEPROM->mac_addr[i] = sMacAddr[i];
		eth_random_addr(pEEPROM->mac_addr);
	} else {
		/* Read Permanent MAC address */
		memcpy(pEEPROM->mac_addr, &hwinfo[EEPROM_MAC_ADDR_8723BS], ETH_ALEN);