Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: add nvmem-mac-address-offset property

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:43:49PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > It is already possible to read the MAC address via a NVMEM provider. But
> > there are boards, esp. with many ports, which only have a base MAC
> > address stored. Thus we need to have a way to provide an offset per
> > network device.
> 
> We need to see what Rob thinks of this. There was recently a patchset
> to support swapping the byte order of the MAC address in a NVMEM. Rob
> said the NVMEM provider should have the property, not the MAC driver.
> This does seems more ethernet specific, so maybe it should be an
> Ethernet property?

There was also this one[1]. I'm not totally opposed, but don't want to 
see a never ending addition of properties to try to describe any 
possible transformation.

Rob

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20200920095724.8251-4-ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx/