From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@codeaurora.org>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: Inherit dev addr from master
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:30:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222143003.GL5653@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190222125654.12478-1-vkoul@kernel.org>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 06:26:54PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> From: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@codeaurora.org>
>
> When we create slave netdevice, the dev addr is inherited from master
> but the master dev addr maybe NULL at that time, so inherit it again
> while opening the slave.
Hi Xiaofei, Vinod
Inheriting it twice seems a bit clumsy. Can the first inherit be
removed? Can you change your MAC driver to set its MAC address in
probe?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-22 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-22 12:56 [PATCH] net: dsa: Inherit dev addr from master Vinod Koul
2019-02-22 14:30 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-02-25 13:13 ` xiaofeis
2019-02-25 13:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-03-27 4:09 ` xiaofeis
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