Re: [PATCH v1] tg3: optionally get mac address from devicetree

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Nov 16 2018 - 22:37:29 EST


From: thesven73@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:15:08 -0500

> If the tg3 has a device node, and that node contains a valid
> mac address property, use that as the tg3's mac address.
>
> This behaviour was previously only present on SPARC, using a
> conditional compile (#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC), presumably because
> at the time, devicetree nodes for pci devices only worked on
> SPARC. However, this has recently been made universal, see
> commit 98d9f30c820d ("pci/of: Match PCI devices to OF nodes dynamically")
>
> Devicetree example:
> (see Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/pci.txt)
>
> &pcie {
> host@0 {
> #address-cells = <3>;
> #size-cells = <2>;
> reg = <0 0 0 0 0>;
> bcm5778: bcm5778@0 {
> reg = <0 0 0 0 0>;
> mac-address = [CA 11 AB 1E 10 01];
> };
> };
> };
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <svendev@xxxxxxxx>

Please use eth_platform_get_mac_address() and you can delete all of the
SPARC specific code altogether.