linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3] ethernet: aquantia: Try MAC address from device tree

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Message-Id: <163844761076.9736.9081757784180554336.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:20:10 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Tianhao Chai <cth451@...il.com>
Cc:     irusskikh@...vell.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        andrew@...n.ch, hkallweit1@...il.com, jwi@...ux.ibm.com,
        marcan@...can.st, sven@...npeter.dev, alyssa@...enzweig.io
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] ethernet: aquantia: Try MAC address from device tree

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:57:06 -0600 you wrote:
> Apple M1 Mac minis (2020) with 10GE NICs do not have MAC address in the
> card, but instead need to obtain MAC addresses from the device tree. In
> this case the hardware will report an invalid MAC.
> 
> Currently atlantic driver does not query the DT for MAC address and will
> randomly assign a MAC if the NIC doesn't have a permanent MAC burnt in.
> This patch causes the driver to perfer a valid MAC address from OF (if
> present) over HW self-reported MAC and only fall back to a random MAC
> address when neither of them is valid.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [PATCHv3] ethernet: aquantia: Try MAC address from device tree
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/553217c24426

You are awesome, thank you!
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