On Tuesday 09 September 2014 16:44:05 Antoine Tenart wrote: > When changing the MAC address, in addition to updating the dev_addr in > the net_device structure, this patch also update the MAC address > registers (high and low) of the Ethernet controller with the new MAC. > The address stored in these registers is used for IEEE 802.3x Ethernet > flow control, which is already enabled. > > This patch also tries reading the MAC address stored in these registers > when probing the driver, to use the MAC address set by the bootloader > and avoid using a random one. > > Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I think it would be good to allow overriding the address using a 'mac-address' property from DT. It's very easy to call of_get_mac_address(). 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
