From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jotihojr@gmail.com
Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next] igb: allow setting MAC address on i211 using a device tree blob V4
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:29:10 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160217.212910.1758016077144502307.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C506FD.5040408@gmail.com>
From: John Holland <jotihojr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:49:17 +0100
> The Intel i211 LOM pcie ethernet controllers' iNVM operates as an OTP
> and has no externel EEPROM interface [1]. The following allows the
> driver to pickup the MAC address from a device tree blob when
> CONFIG_OF
> has been enabled.
Please use the generic eth_platform_get_mac_address(), or
alternatively structure your code like the ixgbe and other cases so
that SPARC and other OF platforms get this support as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-18 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 23:49 [Intel-wired-lan] [next] igb: allow setting MAC address on i211 using a device tree blob V4 John Holland
2016-02-18 2:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-02-18 7:53 ` John Holland
2016-02-18 9:15 ` Jeff Kirsher
2016-02-18 15:22 ` David Miller
2016-02-18 15:47 ` John Holland
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