netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next] igb: allow setting MAC address on i211 using a device tree blob V4

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:29:10 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jotihojr@...il.com
Cc:	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next] igb: allow setting MAC address on
 i211 using a device tree blob V4

From: John Holland <jotihojr@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:49:17 +0100

> The Intel i211 LOM pcie ethernet controllers' iNVM operates as an OTP
> and has no externel EEPROM interface [1]. The following allows the
> driver to pickup the MAC address from a device tree blob when
> CONFIG_OF
> has been enabled.

Please use the generic eth_platform_get_mac_address(), or
alternatively structure your code like the ixgbe and other cases so
that SPARC and other OF platforms get this support as well.