Re: [PATCH] igb: allow optionally getting mac address from device tree

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jun 25 2018 - 04:05:58 EST


From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:00:42 +0200

> @@ -3122,7 +3124,11 @@ static int igb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> break;
> }
>
> - if (eth_platform_get_mac_address(&pdev->dev, hw->mac.addr)) {
> + /* try to get the MAC address from device tree data */
> + iap = of_get_mac_address(pdev->dev.of_node);
> + if (iap)
> + memcpy(hw->mac.addr, iap, ETH_ALEN);

This is exactly what eth_platform_get_mac_address() shoule be doing.