Re: [RFC/PATCH] net: ethernet: nixge: Use of_get_mac_address()

Rob Herring
2018-05-01T15:05:12Z

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:04:01PM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 02:57:42PM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> > Make nixge driver work with 'mac-address' property instead of
> > 'address' property. There are currently no in-tree users and
> > the only users of this driver are devices that use overlays
> > we control to instantiate the device together with the corresponding
> > FPGA images.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Hi David, Rob,
> >
> > with Mike's change that enable the generic 'mac-address'
> > binding that I barely missed with the submission of this
> > driver I was wondering if we can still change the binding.
> >
> > I'm aware that this generally is a nonono case, since the binding
> > is considered API, but since there are no users outside of our
> > devicetree overlays that we ship with our devices I thought I'd ask.

Fine by me. It really comes down to whether there are any users that
would be impacted.

Rob