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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-05-12 03:33:10 -0700
committerReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>2010-06-05 23:13:45 -0700
commit30eabc1736c79d9b617887042ebebc0141a14170 (patch)
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iwlwifi: remove mac_addr assignment
priv->mac_addr is the address of the operating interface, not the permanent MAC address. They are usually the same, but the user can override the operating address, so we shouldn't set the variable to the permanent one, it is assigned when an interface is added. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 42f1d3328078..5976166cb92d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -4015,9 +4015,8 @@ static int iwl3945_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *e
}
/* MAC Address location in EEPROM same for 3945/4965 */
eeprom = (struct iwl3945_eeprom *)priv->eeprom;
- memcpy(priv->mac_addr, eeprom->mac_address, ETH_ALEN);
- IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "MAC address: %pM\n", priv->mac_addr);
- SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR(priv->hw, priv->mac_addr);
+ IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "MAC address: %pM\n", eeprom->mac_address);
+ SET_IEEE80211_PERM_ADDR(priv->hw, eeprom->mac_address);
/***********************
* 5. Setup HW Constants