linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tg3: replace placeholder MAC address with device property

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Message-ID: <6e1641fe-e681-414e-bd51-e20cf511f85a@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:05:52 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Paul SAGE <paul.sage@...fr>
Cc: vinc@...fr, Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@...adcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: replace placeholder MAC address with device property

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Paul SAGE wrote:
> On some systems (e.g. iMac 20,1 with BCM57766), the tg3 driver reads a default placeholder mac address (00:10:18:00:00:00) from the mailbox.
> The correct value on those systems are stored in the 'local-mac-address' property.

Is this the DT property? I don't see any compatible in tg.c, so it is
not clear to me how this driver gets probed. 

Also, please wrap the commit message to around 70 characters.

    Andrew

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