Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>]

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On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 05:44:07PM +0200, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> [2019-05-03 16:36:43]:
>
> Hi,
>
> ...
>
> > > +	pp = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*pp), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	if (!pp)
> > > +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > > +
> > > +	pp->name = "nvmem-mac-address";
> > > +	pp->length = ETH_ALEN;
> > > +	pp->value = devm_kmemdup(&pdev->dev, mac, ETH_ALEN, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	if (!pp->value) {
> > > +		ret = -ENOMEM;
> > > +		goto free;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	ret = of_add_property(np, pp);
> > > +	if (ret)
> > > +		goto free;
> > > +
> > > +	return pp->value;
> >
> > I'm not sure why you need to do that allocation here, and why you need
> > to modify the DT?
>
> I was asked about that in v2[0] already, so just copy&pasting relevant part of
> my response here:
>
>  I've just carried it over from v1 ("of_net: add mtd-mac-address support to
>  of_get_mac_address()")[1] as nobody objected about this so far.
>
>  Honestly I don't know if it's necessary to have it, but so far address,
>  mac-address and local-mac-address properties provide this DT nodes, so I've
>  simply thought, that it would be good to have it for MAC address from NVMEM as
>  well in order to stay consistent.
>
>  [...]
>
> 0. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1092248/#2164089
> 1. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1086628/
>
> > can't you just return the mac address directly since it's what the
> > of_get_mac_address caller will expect anyway?
>
> I don't need this stuff, I can remove it, please just tell me what is
> appropriate and I'm going to do that.

Well, if no ones need it, then there's no point in adding support for
it then?

Maxime

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