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Message-ID: <168cb1440ebe1cff4a7b5e343502638a@walle.cc>
Date:   Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:25:02 +0200
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
To:     Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, olteanv@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] dsa: register every port with of_platform

Am 2021-07-23 13:18, schrieb Ansuel Smith:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 01:13:28PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
>> > The declaration of a different mac-addr using the nvmem framework is
>> > currently broken. The dsa code uses the generic of_get_mac_address where
>> > the nvmem function requires the device node to be registered in the
>> > of_platform to be found by of_find_device_by_node. Register every port
>> 
>> Which tree are you on? This should be fixed with
>> 
>> f10843e04a07  of: net: fix of_get_mac_addr_nvmem() for non-platform 
>> devices
>> 
>> -michael
> 
> Thx a lot for the hint. So yes I missed that the problem was already
> fixed. Sorry for the mess. Any idea if that will be backported?

I didn't include a Fixes tag, so it won't be automatically
backported. Also I'm not sure if it qualifies for the stable trees
because no in-tree users seem to be affected, no?

-michael