On 07/19/2010 02:55 PM, Manuel Lauss wrote: > Modify au1000_eth to receive an ethernet address from platform data, > or choose a random one. > > The default address is usually provided by the firmware; modify > platform device registration to use it if the board code has not > already overridden it. > > Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2: diffed against linus-git, on top of Wolfgang's patch > "mips/alchemy: define eth platform devices in the correct order" > This one should actually apply cleanly. > > > IMHO a device driver should not call firmware-specific functions > (be it MIPS-style prom_get_*(), OF properties or whatever) to > get missing information. Instead this should be done by the > platform code which sets up the device. This patch does just that. > > Compile-tested only. Florian, Wolfgang: could you please give this > a try on your boards? If it works and you agree to it, I'll > resubmit it also to linux-netdev. Thank you! (I don't have > accessible au1000-eth hardware). I will give the patch a try tomorrow morning when I'm back in the office. Wolfgang.
