Re: [PATCH v2] net: usb: asix: allow optionally getting mac address from device tree

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jul 04 2018 - 09:10:19 EST


From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 17:06:49 +0200

> From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For Embedded use where e.g. AX88772B chips may be used without external
> EEPROMs the boot loader may choose to pass the MAC address to be used
> via device tree. Therefore, allow for optionally getting the MAC
> address from device tree data e.g. as follows (excerpt from a T30 based
> board, local-mac-address to be filled in by boot loader):
>
> /* EHCI instance 1: USB2_DP/N -> AX88772B */
> usb@7d004000 {
> status = "okay";
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
> asix@1 {
> reg = <1>;
> local-mac-address = [00 00 00 00 00 00];
> };
> };
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next.