Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present

From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Paul Zimmerman <pauldzim@gmail.com>,
	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
	Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@realtek.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 13:33:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190206123355.GD21676@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190206123018.24802-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:30:17PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> 
> If the system was booted using a device tree and if the device tree
> contains a MAC address, use it instead of reading one from the EEPROM.
> This is useful in situations where the EEPROM isn't properly programmed
> or where the firmware wants to override the existing MAC address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> ---
> Applies on net-next.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - rewrite error check for readability
> - initialize mac_addr array
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Sorry, I forgot to include Heiner's Reviewed-by tag here, but with any
luck patchwork will pick it up if I do this:

This patch previously:

Reviewed-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>

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