RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:20:12PM -0500, David Anders wrote:

> if you grep in drivers/net you will find a wide range of network
> devices that use the random_ether_addr() function:

This is a slightly different case to the one where device tree is most
useful which is the case where there is a MAC assigned to the system but
it's been stored in an alternative location and needs to be programmed
into the NIC by software.