Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] nvmem: add ONIE nvmem cells parser

[John Thomson]

Hi Vadym,

On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, at 09:56, Vadym Kochan wrote:
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Jan Lübbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
…
> 
> > I think it would be useful to have a way to express this setup for systems with
> > many interfaces, but am unsure of where this should be described. Maybe a "mac-
> > address-offset" property in the generic ethernet controller binding?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> 
> May be something like eth_address_provider should be introduced in
> net/ethernet/ ?
> 
> This provider can provide something like eth_provider_address_next() which
> will consider "mac-address-num" (or other specific fields).
> 

A patch series proposed the devicetree property
mac-address-increment, but it did not get support at the time:
of_net: add mac-address-increment support
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200920095724.8251-4-ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx/
dt-bindings: net: Document use of mac-address-increment
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200920095724.8251-5-ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx/

Cheers,
-- 
  John Thomson