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On Friday 20 July 2018 10:34 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:

> There is a lot of follow-up traffic on how exactly to develop the needed
> interfaces for reading mac address in mtd and/or network subsystem.
> 
> But, I don't think any of that negates the need for nvmem lookups that
> work for non-device-tree and populating the lookups in mach-davinci
> board code.
> 
> I am going to send patches 1-7 to ARM-SoC soon, so please do say if
> there is any disagreement on this.

I owed a response on this. After thinking over some and discussing with
Bartosz as well, I decided not to merge any patches from  this series.
Its better to merge anything after the actual path we are talking is
fully clear.

Thanks,
Sekhar