netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec_mpc52xx: Read MAC address from device-tree

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Message-Id: <20130212.120536.2017028310090249045.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:05:36 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	R65777@...escale.com
Cc:	sr@...x.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	agust@...x.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec_mpc52xx: Read MAC address from device-tree

From: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777@...escale.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:56:05 +0000

> Why we read from MAC registers if Linux should not rely on bootloader?

Because it used to and if you just remove that code then you break
existing setups, and I explicitly told him to code things this way.
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