netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] net: davinci_emac: potentially get the MAC address from MTD

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:22:33 +0530
From:   Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
To:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Ladislav Michl <ladis@...ux-mips.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] net: davinci_emac: potentially get the MAC
 address from MTD

On Friday 20 July 2018 10:34 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:

> There is a lot of follow-up traffic on how exactly to develop the needed
> interfaces for reading mac address in mtd and/or network subsystem.
> 
> But, I don't think any of that negates the need for nvmem lookups that
> work for non-device-tree and populating the lookups in mach-davinci
> board code.
> 
> I am going to send patches 1-7 to ARM-SoC soon, so please do say if
> there is any disagreement on this.

I owed a response on this. After thinking over some and discussing with
Bartosz as well, I decided not to merge any patches from  this series.
Its better to merge anything after the actual path we are talking is
fully clear.

Thanks,
Sekhar