From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, robh+dt@kernel.org,
frowand.list@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:53:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180324185324.GG31941@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb12ea29-a7b0-cf66-7f5a-c09d36f443f0@topic.nl>
> A quick survey for the of_get_mac_address users learns that most of them do
> a memcpy (or similar) right after it, so for these drivers the
> "of_get_nvmem_mac_address" style signature that performs the memcpy (or
> better, ether_addr_copy) is a better fit, e.g.:
>
> int of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np, void *addr)
Hi Mike
This is a nicer solution, but it is quite a lot of work, there are a
lot of users. Maybe Coccinelle can help?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-24 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 14:24 [PATCH] of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper Mike Looijmans
2018-03-23 15:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-23 19:20 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-23 19:33 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-24 16:17 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-24 18:53 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-03-25 8:17 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-25 21:04 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-26 6:54 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-23 19:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-24 16:03 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-26 6:41 ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Looijmans
2018-03-26 15:50 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-26 18:25 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-26 18:41 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-26 16:58 ` David Miller
2018-03-26 17:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-26 18:21 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-27 9:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Mike Looijmans
2018-03-27 9:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Mike Looijmans
2018-03-27 22:50 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-03-29 5:31 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-27 9:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] net: macb: Try to retrieve MAC addess from nvmem provider Mike Looijmans
2018-03-28 8:00 ` Nicolas Ferre
2018-03-27 22:43 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper Andrew Lunn
2018-03-29 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 " Mike Looijmans
2018-03-29 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Mike Looijmans
2018-03-29 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] net: macb: Try to retrieve MAC addess from nvmem provider Mike Looijmans
2018-03-30 14:40 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper David Miller
2018-03-31 17:20 ` Mike Looijmans
2018-03-31 17:27 ` Andrew Lunn
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