Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] bootwrapper: Add dt_set_mac_addresses().

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:51:14 +0100

>>> I would have no objection to a patch for DTC that makes it treat "?"
>>> like "0".  This would probably make everyone happy.
>> Some nice poison pattern instead of 0 would be even
>> better.
>
> No, because that might break of_get_mac_address() which considers an 
> all-zero MAC address to be invalid.

If you want to default a certain field, you shouldn't set it
to ? ? ? ?, but to the default value you have in mind :-)

Segher