On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 12:54 +0200, Michael Walle wrote: > Before I'll try to come up with a patch for this, I'd like to get > your opinion on it. > > (1) replacing of_get_mac_address(node) with eth_get_mac_address(dev) > might sometimes lead to confusing comments like in > drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/sun4i-emac.c: > > /* Read MAC-address from DT */ > ret = of_get_mac_address(np, ndev->dev_addr); You could leave it or turn it into "from platform", doesn't matter... > (2) What do you think of eth_get_mac_address(ndev). That is, the Not sure what you mean, eth_platform_get_mac_address() takes the address as an argument. I think what you want is a consolidated nvmem_get_mac_address + eth_platform_get_mac_address that takes a device, which would have no requirement of the bus_type at all. Cheers, Ben.