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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,  Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	 Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: Add mac offset option
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:17:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241220-net-mac-nvmem-offset-v1-1-e9d1da2c1681@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241220-net-mac-nvmem-offset-v1-0-e9d1da2c1681@linaro.org>

In practice (as found in the OpenWrt project) many devices
with multiple ethernet interfaces just store a base MAC
address in NVMEM and increase the lowermost byte with one for
each interface, so as to occupy less NVMEM.

Support this with a per-interface offset so we can encode
this in a predictable way for each interface sharing the
same NVMEM cell.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml         | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml
index 45819b2358002bc75e876eddb4b2ca18017c04bd..608f89359ca844e5325e3cc81bd2677b0eccb08a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-controller.yaml
@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ properties:
   nvmem-cell-names:
     const: mac-address
 
+  nvmem-mac-minor-offset:
+    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
+    minimum: 1
+    maximum: 255
+    description:
+      When a MAC address for a device with multiple ethernet interface
+      is stored in non-volatile memory, the address is often offsetted
+      for different interfaces by increasing the lowermost byte for each
+      interface subsequent to the first in order to save space in NVMEM.
+      This property can be used to add that offset when several
+      interfaces refer to the same NVMEM cell.
+
   phy-connection-type:
     description:
       Specifies interface type between the Ethernet device and a physical

-- 
2.47.1


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-20 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-20 19:17 [PATCH 0/2] net: of: Support minor nvmem MAC offset Linus Walleij
2024-12-20 19:17 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2024-12-31 13:35   ` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: Add mac offset option Rob Herring
2025-01-13 14:59     ` Linus Walleij
2025-01-14 19:47       ` Rob Herring
2024-12-20 19:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: of: Support adding offset to nvmem MAC addresses Linus Walleij

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