From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@realtek.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 20:30:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b18567da-110e-ddb9-c9cf-9c7bdf922500@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190204164213.30727-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com>
On 04.02.2019 17:42, 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>
Reviewed-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-04 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-04 16:42 [PATCH v2 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Thierry Reding
2019-02-04 16:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing Thierry Reding
2019-02-04 16:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-04 18:44 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-05 3:20 ` David Miller
2019-02-05 18:42 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-05 19:14 ` David Miller
2019-02-05 19:19 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-06 7:25 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-02-05 20:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-05 20:18 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-05 20:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-05 20:23 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-04 19:30 ` Heiner Kallweit [this message]
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