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

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Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2016 01:15:01 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	John Holland <jotihojr@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [next] igb: allow setting MAC address on i211
 using a device tree blob V4

On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 08:53 +0100, John Holland wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 18, 2016, at 03:29, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Don't know what you mean. The PCI path in
> eth_platform_get_mac_address() didn't return a devicetree node and I
> can find no instance of of_<function> use in ixgbe.

See commit e1be080f292eba2ef96af999057d1603cd50b473 in my dev-queue
branch.  Sowmini Varadhan provided a patch to
use eth_platform_get_mac_address() instead of the "CONFIG_SPARC"
solution.
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