On 4/15/2021 2:59 PM, Rob Herring wrote: > 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. If only we could load eBPF bytecode embedded into Device Tree ;) -- Florian
