Re: [PATCH] sky2: Add module parameter for passing the MAC address

[Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 01:32:33AM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> From: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
> Date: Wed,  5 Aug 2015 16:50:54 +0100
> 
> > For designs where EEPROMs are not connected to PCI Yukon2
> > chips we need to get the MAC address from the firmware.
> > Add a module parameter called 'mac_address' for this. It
> > will be used if no DT node can be found and the B2_MAC
> > register holds an invalid value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
> 
> Sorry, such module options are absolutely not allowed.

Please clarify if this is a drivers/net/ethernet policy or 
that is true for the larger subsystem. There are a few
networking drivers that have a mac_addr module parameter. I
personally used drivers/net/ethernet/8390/pcnet_cs.c as inspiration
for my patch.

> 
> If an invalid MAC is present, it should be set to a random
> one via eth_random_addr().
> 

Understood. Stephen Hemminger has provided a patch that I can try
and I will report back with the results.

Best regards,
Liviu

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