Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] of_net: add mac-address-increment support

[Rob Herring]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:57 AM Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Lots of embedded devices use the mac-address of other interface
> extracted from nvmem cells and increments it by one or two. Add two
> bindings to integrate this and directly use the right mac-address for
> the interface. Some example are some routers that use the gmac
> mac-address stored in the art partition and increments it by one for the
> wifi. mac-address-increment-byte bindings is used to tell what byte of
> the mac-address has to be increased (if not defined the last byte is
> increased) and mac-address-increment tells how much the byte decided
> early has to be increased.

I'm inclined to say if there's a platform specific way to transform
MAC addresses, then there should be platform specific code to do that
which then stuffs the DT using standard properties. Otherwise, we have
a never ending stream of 'generic' properties to try to handle
different platforms' cases.

Rob