Subject: Re: [RFC next-next v2 1/5] net: marvell: prestera: Add driver for Prestera family ASIC devices

From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 17:32:43 +0200

Mon, May 11, 2020 at 04:11:17PM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
>On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 03:53:59PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> > Looks like it might be hard for the board manufacturing? I mean each
>> > board item need to have updated dtb file with base mac address, instead
>> > to have common dtb for the board type.
>> > 
>> > And it sounds that platform data might be the way in case if the vendor
>> > will implement platform device driver which will handle reading base mac
>> > from eeprom (or other storage) depending on the board and put it to the
>> > platform data which will be provided to prestera driver ?
>> 
>> Hi Vadym
>> 
>> This is not a new problem. Go look at the standard solutions to this.
>> 
>> of_get_mac_address(), eth_platform_get_mac_address(),
>> nvmem_get_mac_address(), of_get_mac_addr_nvmem(), etc.
>> 
>>   Andrew
>
>Thank you! I will look on it!

Though in this case, it is not really a MAC, it is a BASE_MAC...
Maybe in DSA world this is usual?