From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Giorgio Dal Molin <giorgio.nicole@arcor.de>
Cc: Barebox List <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: configure the mac address of an eth device
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 08:20:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200602062024.GG11869@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2035082672.75503.1590508494270@mail.vodafone.de>
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 05:54:53PM +0200, Giorgio Dal Molin wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
>
> thank you for your suggestion about the MAC, the code works now as expected.
>
> Just another quick question: is there a function like of_eth_register_ethaddr()
> also for a 'serial-number' value ?
>
> I also have a 'serial number' value from the eeprom and I would like to pass to the kernel.
> Just calling something like:
>
> of_set_property(of_get_root_node(), "serial-number", s, strlen(s) + 1, 1);
>
> does not work because it changes only the device tree for barebox but not that
> for the kernel. So I registered an of fixup:
>
> of_register_fixup(samx7_board_fixup, s);
>
> for it and it works then but it is a bit more complex.
Yes, you have to do it like that, there is no shortcut for it.
Sascha
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-24 11:57 Giorgio
2020-05-24 18:27 ` Ladislav Michl
2020-05-25 6:01 ` Sascha Hauer
2020-05-26 15:54 ` Giorgio Dal Molin
2020-06-02 6:20 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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