Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756805Ab3EVRfm (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 13:35:42 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:51324 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756563Ab3EVRfk (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 13:35:40 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 72.84.113.162 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18OgV9JPsjid4Gpx2+UeMueN+Tc7rXghEU= Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:35:05 -0400 From: Jason Cooper To: Sebastian Hesselbarth Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , "tiejun.chen" , Andrew Lunn , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, David Miller , Lennert Buytenhek Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/12] ARM: dove: add gigabit ethernet and mvmdio device tree nodes Message-ID: <20130522173505.GH31290@titan.lakedaemon.net> References: <1367854420-8006-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <1369154510-4927-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <1369154510-4927-7-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20130521174849.GL26249@lunn.ch> <519C9333.20609@gmail.com> <519C9822.9040909@windriver.com> <519C9A66.3050807@gmail.com> <20130522131010.GB31290@titan.lakedaemon.net> <20130522165908.GB12320@obsidianresearch.com> <519D0143.1000203@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <519D0143.1000203@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1467 Lines: 36 On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 07:32:51PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > On 05/22/2013 06:59 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 09:10:10AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > >>iirc, our solution to this was to parse the ATAGs for the mac addr and > >>update the appended dtb. This way, module load and unload would work > >>without loosing the mac address. I believe Jason Gunthorpe has a patch > >>to atags_to_fdt() for this... This should allow us to get rid of the > >>clocks hack. > > > >Sorry, no, we don't use ATAGs here, our platforms start the kernel > >with a correct DTB that has the correct mac address to use. My patch > >was to have the driver accept it, and I think Sebastian has already > >got that functionality... > > Not neccessary anyway, after talking Jason C in a Kirkwood-only > workaround I prepared a patch that reads mac address registers early > and stores it in the local-mac-address property. Sweet! > Just tested on Dockstar with gated clocks and modular DT mv643xx_eth. > > Will append to the DT mv643xx_eth patch set if a v5 will be required > or as single patch prior Jason C taking in the ARM part of it > otherwise. Please post, in-reply-to v4 is fine. thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/