On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:43:49PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote: > > It is already possible to read the MAC address via a NVMEM provider. But > > there are boards, esp. with many ports, which only have a base MAC > > address stored. Thus we need to have a way to provide an offset per > > network device. > > We need to see what Rob thinks of this. There was recently a patchset > to support swapping the byte order of the MAC address in a NVMEM. Rob > said the NVMEM provider should have the property, not the MAC driver. > This does seems more ethernet specific, so maybe it should be an > Ethernet property? There was also this one[1]. I'm not totally opposed, but don't want to see a never ending addition of properties to try to describe any possible transformation. Rob [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20200920095724.8251-4-ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx/
