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Date:   Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:06:39 +0000
From:   "John Thomson" <lists@johnthomson.fastmail.com.au>
To:     "Vadym Kochan" <vadym.kochan@plvision.eu>,
        =?UTF-8?Q?Jan_L=C3=BCbbe?= <jlu@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] nvmem: add ONIE nvmem cells parser
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Hi Vadym,

On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, at 09:56, Vadym Kochan wrote:
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> Hi Jan,
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> Jan L=C3=BCbbe <jlu@pengutronix.de> writes:
=E2=80=A6
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> > I think it would be useful to have a way to express this setup for s=
ystems with
> > many interfaces, but am unsure of where this should be described. Ma=
ybe a "mac-
> > address-offset" property in the generic ethernet controller binding?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jan
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> May be something like eth_address_provider should be introduced in
> net/ethernet/ ?
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> This provider can provide something like eth_provider_address_next() w=
hich
> will consider "mac-address-num" (or other specific fields).
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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@gmail.com/
dt-bindings: net: Document use of mac-address-increment
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200920095724.8251-5-ansuelsmth@gmail.com/

Cheers,
--=20
  John Thomson