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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico•com>
Cc: "Paul Cercueil" <paul@crapouillou•net>,
	"Paul Boddie" <paul@boddie•org.uk>,
	"Alex Smith" <alex.smith@imgtec•com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel•org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm•com>,
	"Ralf Baechle" <ralf@linux-mips•org>,
	"Paul Burton" <paulburton@kernel•org>,
	"James Hogan" <jhogan@kernel•org>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@linux•ie>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll•ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro•org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@linux•intel.com>,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzk@kernel•org>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@glider•be>,
	"Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin•com>,
	"Petr Štetiar" <ynezz@true•cz>,
	"Richard Fontana" <rfontana@redhat•com>,
	"Allison Randal" <allison@lohutok•net>,
	"Stephen Boyd" <swboyd@chromium•org>,
	devicetree@vger•kernel.org, linux-mips@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, dri-devel@lists•freedesktop.org,
	linux-i2c@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-gpio@vger•kernel.org, letux-kernel@openphoenux•org,
	kernel@pyra-handheld•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/14] net: davicom: dm9000: allow to pass MAC address through mac_addr module parameter
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:25:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200211222506.GP19213@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e11dd4183da55012198824ca7b8933b1eb57e4a.1581457290.git.hns@goldelico.com>

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:41:20PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> This is needed to give the MIPS Ingenic CI20 board a stable MAC address
> which can be optionally provided by vendor U-Boot.
> 
> For get_mac_addr() we use an adapted copy of from ksz884x.c which
> has very similar functionality.
> 
> Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico•com>

Hi Nikolaus

Please split these patches by subsystem. So this one patch needs to go
via netdev.

> +static char *mac_addr = ":";
> +module_param(mac_addr, charp, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(mac_addr, "MAC address");

Module parameters are not liked.

Can it be passed via device tree? The driver already has code to get
it out of the device tree.

   Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-11 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-11 21:41 [PATCH 00/14] MIPS: Fixes and improvements for CI20 board (JZ4780) H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 01/14] i2c: jz4780: suppress txabrt reports for i2cdetect H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-12  9:46   ` i2c: jz4780: silence log flood on txabrt Wolfram Sang
2020-02-12 14:46     ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-12 14:53       ` Wolfram Sang
2020-02-12 14:59         ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-13  9:10     ` Wolfram Sang
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 02/14] drm: ingenic-drm: add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 03/14] net: davicom: dm9000: allow to pass MAC address through mac_addr module parameter H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 22:25   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-02-12  8:07     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-12  8:13       ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 04/14] MIPS: DTS: jz4780: fix #includes for irq.h and gpio.h H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 05/14] MIPS: CI20: defconfig: configure for supporting modules H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 06/14] MIPS: CI20: defconfig: compile leds-gpio driver into the kernel and configure for LED triggers H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 07/14] MIPS: DTS: CI20: fix PMU definitions for ACT8600 H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:48   ` [Letux-kernel] " Andreas Kemnade
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 08/14] MIPS: CI20: defconfig: configure CONFIG_REGULATOR_ACT8865 for PMU H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 09/14] MIPS: DTS: CI20: give eth0_power a defined voltage H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 10/14] MIPS: DTS: CI20: add DT node for IR sensor H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 11/14] MIPS: CI20: defconfig: compile gpio-ir driver H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 12/14] MIPS: DTS: CI20: add DT node for SW1 as Enter button H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 13/14] MIPS: CI20: defconfig: configure for CONFIG_KEYBOARD_GPIO=m H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-02-11 21:41 ` [PATCH 14/14] MIPS: DTS: CI20: fix interrupt for pcf8563 RTC H. Nikolaus Schaller

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