On 4/15/2021 2:59 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:43:49PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
>>> It is already possible to read the MAC address via a NVMEM provider. But
>>> there are boards, esp. with many ports, which only have a base MAC
>>> address stored. Thus we need to have a way to provide an offset per
>>> network device.
>>
>> We need to see what Rob thinks of this. There was recently a patchset
>> to support swapping the byte order of the MAC address in a NVMEM. Rob
>> said the NVMEM provider should have the property, not the MAC driver.
>> This does seems more ethernet specific, so maybe it should be an
>> Ethernet property?
>
> There was also this one[1]. I'm not totally opposed, but don't want to
> see a never ending addition of properties to try to describe any
> possible transformation.
If only we could load eBPF bytecode embedded into Device Tree ;)
--
Florian
