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From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:33:14 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] net: add an info message to eth_platform_get_mac_address()
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2018-07-18 18:31 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:10:32PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>>
>> Many drivers that read the MAC address from EEPROM or MTD emit a log
>> message when they succeed. Since this function is meant to be reused
>> in those drivers instead of reimplementing the same operation
>> everywhere, add an info message when we successfully read the MAC
>> address.
>
> Hi Bartosz
>
> This makes eth_platform_get_mac_address() generally more verbose,
> which i guess people won't like. To keep it backwards compatible, it
> would be better to issue the message just when EEPROM to MTD is used.
>
>       Andrew

This function should be used at most once per interface - I guess it's
not like it's a huge impact on verbosity.

Bart