The ONIE standard describes the organization of tlv (type-length-value) arrays commonly stored within NVMEM devices on common networking hardware. Several drivers already make use of NVMEM cells for purposes like retrieving a default MAC address provided by the manufacturer. What made ONIE tables unusable so far was the fact that the information where "dynamically" located within the table depending on the manufacturer wishes, while Linux NVMEM support only allowed statically defined NVMEM cells. Fortunately, this limitation was eventually tackled with the introduction of discoverable cells through the use of NVMEM layouts, making it possible to extract and consistently use the content of tables like ONIE's tlv arrays. Parsing this table at runtime in order to get various information is now possible. So, because many Marvell networking switches already follow this standard, let's consider using NVMEM cells as a new valid source of information when looking for a base MAC address, which is one of the primary uses of these new fields. Indeed, manufacturers following the ONIE standard are encouraged to provide a default MAC address there, so let's eventually use it if no other MAC address has been found using the existing methods. Link: https://opencomputeproject.github.io/onie/design-spec/hw_requirements.html Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello, I suppose my change is safe but I don't want to break existing setups so a review on this would be welcome! drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c index eb0fb8128096..7c8c323f4411 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c @@ -6104,6 +6104,12 @@ static void mvpp2_port_copy_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, struct mvpp2 *priv, } } + if (!of_get_mac_address(to_of_node(fwnode), hw_mac_addr)) { + *mac_from = "nvmem cell"; + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, hw_mac_addr); + return; + } + *mac_from = "random"; eth_hw_addr_random(dev); } -- 2.34.1
