From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [PATCH] of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:42:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20180323194259.GP24361@lunn.ch> References: <1521815074-30424-1-git-send-email-mike.looijmans@topic.nl> <20180323151101.GB24361@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Looijmans Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, frowand.list@gmail.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org > Indeed. I'll add my settings as an example. Where should I put this > documentation, in the commit comment or somewhere in > Documents/devicetree/bindings? Documention/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt > It's what I intended to do, but there were two problems with that: > - of_get_mac_address() returns a pointer to constant data in memory, but the > nvmem functions return an allocated memory object that must be freed after > use. This changes the way the call is to be made. > - The nvmem functions need the "struct device" pointer as well, while > of_get_mac_address() only gets passed the DT node. Does of_nvmem_cell_get() help? Andrew