[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 4/5] ath79: add ath9k calibration data MAC addresses patching

Christian Lamparter chunkeey at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 09:08:34 EDT 2018


On Saturday, August 11, 2018 10:23:16 PM CEST Mathias Kresin wrote:
> 10.08.2018 23:24, Christian Lamparter:
> > This patch copies over the MAC patching helper functions from lantiq's
> > target/linux/lantiq/base-files/etc/hotplug.d/firmware/12-ath9k-eeprom
> > file.
> > 
> > Not all vendors bothered to write the correct MAC addresses for the
> > ath9k wifi into the calibration data. And while ath9k does have some
> > special dt-properties to extract the addresses from a fixed position,
> > there are still devices that require userspace to edit or modify
> > the caldata.
> > 
> > In my case, the MAC address for the Wi-Fi device is stored in an
> > unsorted key-value based "nvram" database and there's an existing
> > userspace tool to extract the data.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at gmail.com>
> 
> Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to check your other patches yet.
Please hold off until v2 next week. I made the changes Jonas requested
for the cybertan_part and as a result the partitions-node in the dts has
changed as well.

Christian



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