From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Liviu.Dudau@arm.com
Cc: mlindner@marvell.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
ryan.harkin@linaro.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Add module parameter for passing the MAC address
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:32:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150805.173233.539752020022715092.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438789854-29194-1-git-send-email-Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
From: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:50:54 +0100
> For designs where EEPROMs are not connected to PCI Yukon2
> chips we need to get the MAC address from the firmware.
> Add a module parameter called 'mac_address' for this. It
> will be used if no DT node can be found and the B2_MAC
> register holds an invalid value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Sorry, such module options are absolutely not allowed.
If an invalid MAC is present, it should be set to a random
one via eth_random_addr().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-06 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-05 15:50 [PATCH] sky2: Add module parameter for passing the MAC address Liviu Dudau
2015-08-05 16:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-05 17:16 ` Liviu Dudau
2015-08-05 20:33 ` Francois Romieu
2015-08-05 23:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-06 0:33 ` Florian Fainelli
2015-08-11 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 net-next] sky2: use random address if EEPROM is bad Liviu Dudau
2015-08-11 17:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-12 9:30 ` Liviu Dudau
2015-08-12 15:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-12 16:00 ` Liviu Dudau
2015-08-11 18:56 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-08-12 9:15 ` Liviu Dudau
[not found] ` <CAD0U-h+Lbz+bygVCaF1Ji0VPLfh9sn504rCeGigXLER+H=KnZg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-05 17:18 ` [PATCH] sky2: Add module parameter for passing the MAC address Liviu Dudau
2015-08-06 0:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-08-06 10:31 ` Liviu Dudau
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