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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] misc: Add MAC address mapper "driver"
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 11:10:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160201101007.GA4118@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454306234-2299-1-git-send-email-andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:57:13PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> Add Barebox specific device tree provisions to allow specifying MAC
> addresses for network interfaces via device tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
> ---
>  .../bindings/barebox/barebox,mac-address-map.rst   |  27 ++++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile                              |   1 +
>  drivers/misc/mac-address-map.c                     | 142 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 170 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,mac-address-map.rst
>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mac-address-map.c
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,mac-address-map.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,mac-address-map.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..1ac3062
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,mac-address-map.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +barebox MAC address map
> +=======================
> +
> +This driver allows to specify each network adapter's source of MAC address from the devicetree.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +
> +* ``compatible``: should be ``barebox,mac-address-map``
> +
> +Besides ``compatible`` property the node is expected to contain a
> +number of children nodes each specifing a single "MAC source ->
> +interface" mapping.
> +
> +Child node's required properties:
> +* ``network-interface``: phandle corresponding to network interface
> +* ``mac-location``: a pair of phandle to 'cdev' containing MAC address
> +  and offset withing that 'cdev'
> +
> +Example::
> +
> +  mac-address-map {
> +	compatible = "barebox,mac-address-map";
> +	nic@0 {
> +		network-interface = <&fec>;
> +		mac-location = <&ocotp 0x88>;
> +	};
> +  };

I wonder if the correct way to do this wouldn't be nvmem, see
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt in the Kernel.
This would mandate a binding like:

	ocotp {
		mac1: mac@88 {
			reg = <0x88 0x6>;
		};
	};

	&fec {
		nvmem-cells = <&mac1>;
		nvmem-cell-names = "mac-address";
	};

Sascha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01  5:57 Andrey Smirnov
2016-02-01  5:57 ` [RFC 2/2] arm/dts: i.MX6: Use generic MAC address mapper Andrey Smirnov
2016-02-01 10:10 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2016-02-01 19:18   ` [RFC 1/2] misc: Add MAC address mapper "driver" Trent Piepho
2016-02-03  1:14     ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-02-03 18:40       ` Trent Piepho
2016-02-03 20:16         ` Andrey Smirnov
2016-02-03  1:09   ` Andrey Smirnov

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