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Re: [PATCH 3/3] rt2x00: add platform_data mac address

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Hi,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Gertjan van Wingerde
<gwingerde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And for this patch I have the same question as for the previous patch: why do we need to arrange this via platform data,
> as opposed to using the standard user space ifconfig facility to set a mac address?

This looks fine to me. I'd also prefer to pass in a MAC address from
the platform data on SoC devices
instead of having to write some user space code. And this is how it is
done by other drivers as well.

> As a second question: why is this only implemented for rt61pci, and not the other PCI / SOC drivers?

Good point.

Helmut
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