On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:33:01PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 17 March 2011 22:47:36 Greg KH wrote: > > > > Patches to fix this, for this specific PandaBoard controller are gladly > > > > accepted. What's odd is this is explicitly a Linux development board, > > > > so you would think that this could have been caught, and fixed, in the > > > > hardware a long time ago, right? > > > > > > The way everyone resolves this stuff is by patching their kernel > > > locally. > > > > Well, that means that the device tree work is going to be useful here, > > right? :) > > I like the idea. Let's make this the first use case where a lot of > people will want to have the device tree on ARM. The patch to the > driver to check for a mac-address property is trivial, and we > can probably come up with a decent way of parsing the device > tree for USB devices, after all there is an existing spec for > it (http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/usb/usb-1_0.ps). > > Arnd > > 8<------ > [PATCH] net/smscx5xx: demonstrate use of device tree for mac address > > This takes the MAC address for smsc75xx/smsc95xx USB network devices > from a the device tree. This is required to get a usable persistent > address on the popular beagleboard, whose hardware designers > accidentally forgot that an ethernet device really requires an a > MAC address to be functional. > > The smsc75xx and smsc95xx drivers are just two copies of the > same code, so better fix both. > > Not tested! > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@xxxxxxxxxx> <snip> Very nice. Andy and Mark, would this patch work for you? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
