linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: add nvmem-mac-address-offset property

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:59:55 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: add
 nvmem-mac-address-offset property

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:43:49PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > It is already possible to read the MAC address via a NVMEM provider. But
> > there are boards, esp. with many ports, which only have a base MAC
> > address stored. Thus we need to have a way to provide an offset per
> > network device.
> 
> We need to see what Rob thinks of this. There was recently a patchset
> to support swapping the byte order of the MAC address in a NVMEM. Rob
> said the NVMEM provider should have the property, not the MAC driver.
> This does seems more ethernet specific, so maybe it should be an
> Ethernet property?

There was also this one[1]. I'm not totally opposed, but don't want to 
see a never ending addition of properties to try to describe any 
possible transformation.

Rob

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20200920095724.8251-4-ansuelsmth@gmail.com/