From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: Add eth_platform_get_mac_address() helper.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:49:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160113004916.GA28880@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160106.163309.111867454969344145.davem@davemloft.net>
On (01/06/16 16:33), David Miller wrote:
>
> A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
> and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the
> ethernet address for a given device.
:
> Consolidate this into a portable routine, and provide the
> arch_get_platform_mac_address() weak function hook for all
> architectures to implement if they want.
:
> As promised back in November, I'm commiting this into net-next
> now. I'd work on the conversions of existing drivers, but I'd
> rather someone with access to the hardware to so.
I finally have all the ducks lined up for ixgbe/i40e around this.
Should I go ahead and send this off (I think it first gets staged
through Jeff's repo?) or is it better to wait for net-next to be
open again?
--Sowmini
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-13 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-06 21:33 [PATCH v2] net: Add eth_platform_get_mac_address() helper David Miller
2016-01-06 21:45 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-01-06 23:12 ` Joe Perches
2016-01-06 23:26 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-01-06 23:32 ` Joe Perches
2016-01-06 23:41 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-01-07 0:01 ` David Miller
2016-01-07 0:02 ` Joe Perches
2016-01-13 0:49 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2016-01-13 0:59 ` Kirsher, Jeffrey T
2016-01-13 2:40 ` David Miller
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