[PATCH 10/10] board: sl28: disable random MAC address generation

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Thu Nov 18 09:29:51 CET 2021


Am 2021-11-17 19:24, schrieb Tom Rini:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:45:58PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
>> Am 2021-11-16 22:14, schrieb Tom Rini:
>> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:45:51PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
>> >
>> > > Nowadays, u-boot (when CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is set) will set
>> > > enetaddr to a random value if not set and then pass the randomly
>> > > generated MAC address to linux.
>> >
>> > First, for clarity I'm not nak'ing this.  I kind of would like to see a
>> > slight reword as I think some things aren't 100% correct, even if the
>> > "save random MAC to ethaddr environment variable" change goes in.  For
>> > example, it's quite long standing that (dev|pdata)->enetaddr populates
>> > "mac-address" and "local-mac-address" and it seems in some older cases
>> > we only set the "local-mac-address" property.
>> 
>> fdt_fixup_memory() in common/fdt_support.c does a env_get(mac).
> 
> Whoops, yes, I misrecalled this.

That means you are fine with this commit message?

-michael


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