linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] net: add an info message to eth_platform_get_mac

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:33:14 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] net: add an info message to eth_platform_get_mac_address()

2018-07-18 18:31 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:10:32PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
>>
>> Many drivers that read the MAC address from EEPROM or MTD emit a log
>> message when they succeed. Since this function is meant to be reused
>> in those drivers instead of reimplementing the same operation
>> everywhere, add an info message when we successfully read the MAC
>> address.
>
> Hi Bartosz
>
> This makes eth_platform_get_mac_address() generally more verbose,
> which i guess people won't like. To keep it backwards compatible, it
> would be better to issue the message just when EEPROM to MTD is used.
>
>       Andrew

This function should be used at most once per interface - I guess it's
not like it's a huge impact on verbosity.

Bart