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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lkundrak@v3.sk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, steve.glendinning@shawell.net,
	arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/smscx5xx: use the device tree for mac address
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 20:58:44 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160501.205844.1335479445435999295.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461913559-15902-1-git-send-email-lkundrak@v3.sk>

From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:05:59 +0200

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> This takes the MAC address for smsc75xx/smsc95xx USB network devices
> from a the device tree. This is required to get a usable persistent
> address on the popular beagleboard, whose hardware designers
> accidentally forgot that an ethernet device really requires an a
> MAC address to be functional.
> 
> The Raspberry Pi also ships smsc9514 without a serial EEPROM, stores
> the MAC address in ROM accessible via VC4 firmware.
> 
> The smsc75xx and smsc95xx drivers are just two copies of the
> same code, so better fix both.
> 
> [lkundrak@v3.sk: updated to use of_get_property() as per suggestion from
> Arnd, reworded the message and comments a bit]
> 
> Tested-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>

Applied, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-05-02  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-29  7:05 [PATCH] net/smscx5xx: use the device tree for mac address Lubomir Rintel
2016-05-02  0:58 ` David Miller [this message]

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