From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:25:18 +0000 Message-ID: <20110318182518.GA2271@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <4D83A25C.804@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D83A25C.804-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: David Anders Cc: Nicolas Pitre , "andy.green-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org" , Greg KH , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , Linux USB list , lkml , Andy Green List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:20:12PM -0500, David Anders wrote: > if you grep in drivers/net you will find a wide range of network > devices that use the random_ether_addr() function: This is a slightly different case to the one where device tree is most useful which is the case where there is a MAC assigned to the system but it's been stored in an alternative location and needs to be programmed into the NIC by software.