Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: asix: init ASIX AX88772B MAC from EEPROM

[Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>]

On Tuesday 18 December 2012 14:38:32 Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2012, 14:33 +0100 schrieb Oliver Neukum:
> > On Tuesday 18 December 2012 14:24:32 Lucas Stach wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2012, 14:11 +0100 schrieb Oliver Neukum:
> > > > On Tuesday 18 December 2012 13:10:25 Lucas Stach wrote:
> > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h b/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h
> > > > > index 9bbeabf..8e9516f 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h
> > > > > @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct driver_info {
> > > > >   */
> > > > >  #define FLAG_MULTI_PACKET      0x2000
> > > > >  #define FLAG_RX_ASSEMBLE       0x4000  /* rx packets may span >1 frames */
> > > > > +#define FLAG_EEPROM_MAC                0x8000  /* initialize device MAC from eeprom */
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > this looks sensible, but
> > > > why are you adding a flag unused in usbnet to usbnet.h?
> > > 
> > > Right, this might not be the right place to add this. Could you point me
> > > to a more appropriate place? The data member of usbnet might be a good
> > 
> > driver_priv is intended for such stuff
> > 
> I'm not talking about the usbnet struct, but the driver_info struct. I
> need a way to pass this flag from the static driver info to the bind
> function. I don't even have a usbnet device at this point, where I could
> hang on driver_priv data.

True, sorry I misread the patch. You could split up ax88772_bind()
implicitly encoding the flag. That would be reasonably clean. If you
really don't want to do that, please add another private field. But
we cannot pollute the flags.

	Regards
		Oliver