Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] net: davinci_emac: potentially get the MAC address from MTD | From | David Lechner <> | Date | Tue, 3 Jul 2018 11:47:16 -0500 |
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On 07/03/2018 11:39 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 06/29/2018 02:40 AM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: >> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> >> >> On da850-evm board we can read the MAC address from MTD. It's currently >> done in the relevant board file, but we want to get rid of all the MAC >> reading callbacks from the board file (SPI and NAND). Move the reading >> of the MAC address from SPI to the emac driver's probe function. > > This should be made something generic to all drivers, not just something > the davinci_emac driver does, something like this actually: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/24/312 >
I was thinking about suggesting adding a nvmem provider for MTD devices as well. It would fix the kernel config dependency problems I was running into since nvmem lookups can do -EPROBE_DEFER.
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