From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Paul Zimmerman <pauldzim@gmail.com>,
Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@realtek.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 14:29:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190206132908.GE20405@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190206123018.24802-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:30:17PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>
> If the system was booted using a device tree and if the device tree
> contains a MAC address, use it instead of reading one from the EEPROM.
> This is useful in situations where the EEPROM isn't properly programmed
> or where the firmware wants to override the existing MAC address.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-06 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 12:30 [PATCH v3 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Thierry Reding
2019-02-06 12:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing Thierry Reding
2019-02-06 12:35 ` Thierry Reding
2019-02-06 13:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-06 21:40 ` David Miller
2019-02-06 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Thierry Reding
2019-02-06 13:29 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-02-06 21:40 ` David Miller
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