On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:50:54 +0100 Liviu Dudau <liviu.du...@arm.com> wrote:
> For designs where EEPROMs are not connected to PCI Yukon2 > chips we need to get the MAC address from the firmware. > Add a module parameter called 'mac_address' for this. It > will be used if no DT node can be found and the B2_MAC > register holds an invalid value. > > Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.du...@arm.com> Yes, I can see that this can be a real problem, and other drivers solve the problem. The standard method is to assign a random mac address (and then let scripts overwrite) rather than introducing module parameter. Module parameters are discouraged because they are device specific. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
