Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2018 10:05:12 -0500 | From | Rob Herring <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] net: ethernet: nixge: Use of_get_mac_address() |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:04:01PM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 02:57:42PM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote: > > Make nixge driver work with 'mac-address' property instead of > > 'address' property. There are currently no in-tree users and > > the only users of this driver are devices that use overlays > > we control to instantiate the device together with the corresponding > > FPGA images. > > > > Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org> > > --- > > > > Hi David, Rob, > > > > with Mike's change that enable the generic 'mac-address' > > binding that I barely missed with the submission of this > > driver I was wondering if we can still change the binding. > > > > I'm aware that this generally is a nonono case, since the binding > > is considered API, but since there are no users outside of our > > devicetree overlays that we ship with our devices I thought I'd ask.
Fine by me. It really comes down to whether there are any users that would be impacted.
Rob
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