Re: [PATCH v1] tg3: optionally use eth_platform_get_mac_address() to get mac address

[David Miller]

From: thesven73@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:56:18 -0500

> This function will try to determine the mac address via the devicetree,
> or via an architecture-specific method (e.g. a PROM on SPARC).
> 
> The SPARC-specific code in this driver (#ifdef SPARC) did exactly this,
> and is therefore removed.
> 
> Note that you can now specify the tg3 mac address via the devicetree,
> on any platform, not just SPARC:
> 
> 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>

Applied to net-next, thanks.