Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:58:27 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] tg3: optionally use eth_platform_get_mac_address() to get mac address | From | David Miller <> |
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From: thesven73@gmail.com Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:56:18 -0500
> This function will try to determine the mac address via the devicetree, > or via an architecture-specific method (e.g. a PROM on SPARC). > > The SPARC-specific code in this driver (#ifdef SPARC) did exactly this, > and is therefore removed. > > Note that you can now specify the tg3 mac address via the devicetree, > on any platform, not just SPARC: > > Devicetree example: > (see Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci.txt) > > &pcie { > host@0 { > #address-cells = <3>; > #size-cells = <2>; > reg = <0 0 0 0 0>; > bcm5778: bcm5778@0 { > reg = <0 0 0 0 0>; > mac-address = [CA 11 AB 1E 10 01]; > }; > }; > }; > > Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <svendev@arcx.com>
Applied to net-next, thanks.
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