linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: add MTD support to eth_platform_get_mac

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:47:37 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
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-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: add MTD support to
 eth_platform_get_mac_address()

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:10:35PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> 
> MTD doesn't support nvmem yet. Some platforms use MTD to read the MAC
> address from SPI flash. If we want this function to generalize reading
> the MAC address, we need to separately try to use MTD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> ---
>  net/ethernet/eth.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
> index adf5bd03851f..f7dbd2cff7f9 100644
> --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
> +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
>  #include <linux/of_net.h>
>  #include <linux/pci.h>
>  #include <linux/nvmem-consumer.h>
> +#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
>  #include <net/dst.h>
>  #include <net/arp.h>
>  #include <net/sock.h>
> @@ -573,6 +574,25 @@ int eth_platform_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, u8 *mac_addr)
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MTD
> +	/* NOTE: this should go away as soon as MTD gets nvmem support. */
> +	if (!addr) {
> +		struct mtd_info *mtd;
> +		int rv;
> +
> +		mtd = get_mtd_device_nm("MAC-Address");

In order for this to go away, you need to keep backwards
compatibility. When using nvmem, you look for a cell called
"mac-address". Here you are looking for "MAC-Address". That is going
to make backwards compatibility harder. How do you plan to do it?

   Andrew