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From: jason@lakedaemon.net (Jason Cooper)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:01:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v4 06/12] ARM: dove: add gigabit ethernet and mvmdio
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:59:08AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:10:10AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> > iirc, our solution to this was to parse the ATAGs for the mac addr and
> > update the appended dtb.  This way, module load and unload would work
> > without loosing the mac address.  I believe Jason Gunthorpe has a patch
> > to atags_to_fdt() for this...  This should allow us to get rid of the
> > clocks hack.
> 
> Sorry, no, we don't use ATAGs here, our platforms start the kernel
> with a correct DTB that has the correct mac address to use. My patch
> was to have the driver accept it, and I think Sebastian has already
> got that functionality...

Yes, you're right.

thx,

Jason.