* Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> [120702 03:24]: > On Sunday 01 July 2012, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > 2. Pass the Panda mac information as platform data to this > > > > driver for now with a comment on the usb path naming being > > > > potentially wrong in the loadable modules case. > > > > > > IMHO code outside of the platform driver world would be more > > > appropriate here. It's not actually a platform device because > > > it's more of an abstract concept to define a mac address than > > > physical hardware. > > > > Well we still need to also pass the mac address generated by > > the SoC specific kernel init code. It seems that platform data > > would be the obvious way to pass that. Or do you have some other > > way in mind for that? > > My point is that for platform data you need a platform device of > some sort, but this new piece of infrastructure does not look > like it should be a device. OK > I think a reasonable interface would be something as simple as > > void register_eth_mac_fixup(const char *path, const u8 *mac); > > Instead of registering a device from the platform, we just call > this function, and leave the code built-in. Sounds good to me. Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
