From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiner Kallweit Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 20:30:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20190204164213.30727-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190204164213.30727-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Thierry Reding , "David S. Miller" Cc: Andrew Lunn , Realtek linux nic maintainers , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 04.02.2019 17:42, Thierry Reding wrote: > From: Thierry Reding > > If the system was booted using a device tree and if the device tree > contains a MAC address, use it instead of reading one from the EEPROM. > This is useful in situations where the EEPROM isn't properly programmed > or where the firmware wants to override the existing MAC address. > > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding Reviewed-by: Heiner Kallweit