On Wednesday 03 September 2014 18:37:16 PERIER Romain wrote: > It is an optional property used by arc-emac (the core driver), if it > is not present the core driver generates one for you. > Problem being that with this property two radxa rock boards connected > on the same local network might have the same mac address. > > In this case it would be probably better to remove this property. What > do you think ? > It would typically be filled in by the boot loader, and be all-zeroes in the kernel-supplied dts file. I don't see a point in hardcoding a particular MAC address in the dts file, since that won't work unless it's the only device of that type in the network segment. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
