From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com" <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>,
"andreyknvl@google.com" <andreyknvl@google.com>,
"oneukum@suse.com" <oneukum@suse.com>,
"linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: usb: asix: allow optionally getting mac address from device tree
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:28:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180625152806.GA11603@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1529926008.12558.14.camel@toradex.com>
> Now that you mentioned eth_platform_get_mac_address() on my igb attempt I am
> wondering whether that would not also be the better approach for ASIX USB net
> use. Looks like at least lan78xx already does it that way as well.
>
> What do you think?
Hi Marcel
eth_platform_get_mac_address() is preferred, since it will try DT,
ACPI, and anything else the platform supports.
Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-25 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-25 8:01 [PATCH] net: usb: asix: allow optionally getting mac address from device tree Marcel Ziswiler
2018-06-25 11:26 ` Marcel Ziswiler
2018-06-25 15:28 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
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