Re: [PATCH v2] net: cpsw: fix obtaining mac address for am3517

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 11:52:23 EST


* Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [161028 08:33]:
> Commit b6745f6e4e63 ("drivers: net: cpsw: davinci_emac: move reading mac
> id to common file") did not only move the code for an am3517, it also
> added the slave parameter, resulting in an invalid (all zero) mac address
> being returned for an am3517, since it only has a single emac and the slave
> parameter is pointing to the second. So simply always read the first and
> valid mac-address for a ti,am3517-emac.

And others davinci_emac.c users can have more than one. So is the
reason the slave parameter points to the second instance because
of the location in the hardware?

Regards,

Tony