[PATCH v2] net: fec_mpc52xx: Read MAC address from device-tree

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Feb 13 04:05:36 EST 2013


From: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777 at freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:56:05 +0000

> Why we read from MAC registers if Linux should not rely on bootloader?

Because it used to and if you just remove that code then you break
existing setups, and I explicitly told him to code things this way.


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