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=46rom: Richard R=F6jfors <richard.rojfors@pelagicore.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:16:29 +0200

> I posted a new patch where the MAC address is passed via
> platform data, hope that's an accepted way.

I saw also that you mentioned that there is no real
way to probe this information.

Therefore I worry that your plan might be to simply
use some kernel command line or module option somewhere
else to fill in this platform_device value.

Is that what you plan to do?