Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757500Ab1CRVRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:17:19 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:39609 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757366Ab1CRVRH (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:17:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=DvEC2sdu2en8t797U1m25JRs50BBXQsb7ZwDHysjj4bhCIzxxQQPBBsOMSywmEIeni gmiu6hXIWpGTPnqjIGs8LAO+XIwj12/279I/kAi5MZXwOQ1zdidwvPWXNTBpsOvL7GZ4 LS1HmTM1eCVCz03Sfao8F2f59CxmHgTK3l4dE= Message-ID: <4D83CBCF.2060103@linaro.org> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:17:03 +0000 From: Andy Green Reply-To: andy.green@linaro.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110310 Fedora/3.1.9-2.fc16 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Mark Brown , David Anders , Greg KH , Grant Likely , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , Nicolas Pitre , Linux USB list , lkml Subject: Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets References: <4D83A25C.804@ti.com> <20110318182518.GA2271@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4D83BA4F.8050301@linaro.org> <201103182211.36869.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201103182211.36869.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 24 On 03/18/2011 09:11 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > On Friday 18 March 2011, Andy Green wrote: >> In which case, they are all potential consumers of a MAC "stored in an >> alternative location and needs to be programmed into the NIC by >> software" solution, which he also thinks is needed. > > Note that there is also of_get_mac_address(), which is meant to > deal with this exact problem. Curiously grep finds it in 7 drivers... Oh it only solves any problem if you are using Open Firmware, like almost everything is not using. I see. -Andy -- 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/