From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:32:24 -0800
> On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 00:26 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Joe Perches writes:
>> > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> > > A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
>> > > and, if not found,
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 19:01 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> The caller checks for NULL, and this is the default implementation
> doing precisely what it is meant to do.
Yeah, I noticed that later. Nevermind...
cheers, Joe
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Joe Perches writes:
> On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 00:26 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Joe Perches writes:
>> > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> > > A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
>> > > and, if not found, platform specific host information to
On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 00:26 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Joe Perches writes:
> > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > > A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
> > > and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the
> > > ethernet
Joe Perches writes:
> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
>> and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the
>> ethernet address for a given device.
> []
>> diff --git a/include/linux/et
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
> and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the
> ethernet address for a given device.
[]
> diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/e
On (01/06/16 16:33), David Miller wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan
>
> As promised back in November, I'm commiting this into net-next
> now. I'd work on the conversions of existing drivers, but I'd
> rather someone with access to the hardware to so.
I'll
A repeating pattern in drivers has become to use OF node information
and, if not found, platform specific host information to extract the
ethernet address for a given device.
Currently this is done with a call to of_get_mac_address() and then
some ifdef'd stuff for SPARC.
Consolidate this into a
