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

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:54:12 -0500

Segher Boessenkool wrote:

>> 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 :-)

Fair enough, but then we can't use it for local-mac-address, which was the whole point 
behind this discussion!  So you can use ? for every property *except* local-mac-address. 
If it's going to be this complicated, I say forget the whole thing.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale