[PATCH] wifi: ath11k: retrieve MAC address from system firmware if provided

[Kalle Valo]

Jun Yu <junyuu at chromium.org> wrote:

> Devices may provide their own MAC address via system firmware (e.g.,
> device tree), especially in the case where the device doesn't have a
> useful EEPROM on which to store its MAC address (e.g., for integrated
> ahb WCN6750).
> 
> Use the generic device helper to retrieve the MAC address, and (if
> present) honor it above the MAC address advertised by the card.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.1.0.1-00887-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jun Yu <junyuu at chromium.org>

Fails to build:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c: In function 'ath11k_mac_register':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:8999:9: error: too many arguments to function 'device_get_mac_address'
 8999 |         device_get_mac_address(ab->dev, mac_addr, sizeof(ab->mac_addr));
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ./include/linux/ieee80211.h:20,
                 from ./include/net/mac80211.h:20,
                 from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:7:
./include/linux/etherdevice.h:35:5: note: declared here
   35 | int device_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, char *addr);
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:249: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k] Error 2
make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:1853: drivers] Error 2

Patch set to Changes Requested.

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