of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper
authorMike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:29:48 +0000 (07:29 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:40:18 +0000 (10:40 -0400)
commit9217e566bdee4583d0a9ea4879c8f5e004886eac
tree7bb19099d401d2e50b46112173f35435268eb6e9
parent64e828dfc4853a396d2c0b25c22a4c5066aab76a
of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper

It's common practice to store MAC addresses for network interfaces into
nvmem devices. However the code to actually do this in the kernel lacks,
so this patch adds of_get_nvmem_mac_address() for drivers to obtain the
address from an nvmem cell provider.

This is particulary useful on devices where the ethernet interface cannot
be configured by the bootloader, for example because it's in an FPGA.

Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
drivers/of/of_net.c
include/linux/of_net.h