ACK: [PATCH 0/6] [SRU] [T/master] armhf: cpsw: read eth mac from control

Chris J Arges chris.j.arges at canonical.com
Thu May 7 14:49:02 UTC 2015


All clean cherry-picks and fixes an important issue.
--chris

On 05/07/2015 07:56 AM, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1452628
> 
> The NIC used in the beaglebone doesn't have a fixed MAC address set, instead you
> can pass one using the bootloader, or the driver will generate a random one.
> 
> This series adds support to read the MACIDs of the am335x chip and use them as
> fallback. These addresses are only used if there are no mac addresses in the
> devicetree, for example set by a bootloader.
> 
> All the patches are already present in Vivid, and are clean cherry-picks plus
> some mechanical change to make them apply.
> 
> Proposing for Trusty (i'll follow up with another series for Utopic).
> 
> Markus Pargmann (6):
>   DT doc: net: cpsw mac-address is optional
>   net: cpsw: Add missing return value
>   net: cpsw: header, Add missing include
>   net: cpsw: Add am33xx MACID readout
>   am33xx: define syscon control module device node
>   arm: dts: am33xx, Add syscon phandle to cpsw node
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt |  6 +++-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/am33xx.dtsi                  |  6 ++++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig                |  2 ++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c                 | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.h                 |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 




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