Re: [PATCH v2] of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 03/26/2018 09:58 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:41:29 +0200
> 
>> It's common practice to store MAC addresses for network interfaces into
>> nvmem devices. However the code to actually do this in the kernel lacks,
>> so this patch adds of_get_nvmem_mac_address() for drivers to obtain the
>> address from an nvmem cell provider.
>>
>> This is particulary useful on devices where the ethernet interface cannot
>> be configured by the bootloader, for example because it's in an FPGA.
>>
>> Tested by adapting the cadence macb driver to call this instead of
>> of_get_mac_address().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
>> ---
>> v2: Use of_nvmem_cell_get to avoid needing the assiciated device
>>     Use void* instead of char*
>>     Add devicetree binding doc
> 
> Like Andrew, I think you should add a new interface for getting the MAC
> address from nvmem.
> 
> And drivers can call both of them if they want OF device tree and
> NVMEM probing for MAC addresses.
> 
> Later you can add a consolidated interface, if necessary, which does
> both and also take a reference to the MAC address buffer of the driver
> in order to deal with the resource allocation issues.

Agreed, also, how does this fit with Alban's patch series here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/24/312

do you depend on those changes at all?
-- 
Florian