Re: [PATCH net-next] dt-bindings: net: xilinx: document xilinx emaclite driver binding

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon May 30 2022 - 15:09:42 EST


On 30/05/2022 15:21, Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
>>
>>> + local-mac-address = [00 0a 35 00 00 00];
>>
>> Each device should get it's own MAC address, right? I understand you
>> leave it for bootloader, then just fill it with 0.
>
> The emaclite driver uses of_get_ethdev_address() to get mac from DT.
> i.e 'local-mac-address' if present in DT it will be read and this MAC
> address is programmed in the MAC core. So I think it's ok to have a
> user defined mac-address (instead of 0s) here in DT example?

And you want to program the same MAC address in every device in the
world? How would that work?



Best regards,
Krzysztof