[PATCH] powerpc: add of_get_mac_address() and update fsl_soc.c to use it
Sergei Shtylyov
sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Thu Feb 15 01:09:08 EST 2007
Hello.
Timur Tabi wrote:
>>> + return get_property(np, "address", NULL);
>> Since there is so much room for confusion with "address", please at
>> least do some basic sanity checking, like check that it's size is 6
>> bytes and maybe that the multicast bit isn't set.
> Are you saying that some device trees have something *other* than a MAC
> address in the 'address' property?
'address' property was originally defined to hold a virtual address of the
device registers (with 'reg' holding the physical address) until FSL decided
to "reinvent" the property. :-)
WBR, Sergei
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