[PATCH v4] net: uclass: Save generated ethernet MAC addresses to the environment
Michal Simek
michal.simek at xilinx.com
Wed Jan 12 10:39:10 CET 2022
On 1/11/22 10:28, Michal Simek wrote:
> When a MAC address is randomly generated we currently only update the
> appropriate data structure. For consistency and to re-align with
> historic usage, it should be also saved to the appropriate environment
> variable as well.
>
> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev at gmail.com>
> [trini: Update Kconfig, handle legacy networking case as well]
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Acked-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Legacy code was c&p from DM which didn't work. CI found it that's why
> new version is required
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Update Kconfig help text with Wolfgang's suggestion
> - Reword the commit message to hopefully be clearer
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Update Kconfig help text to reflect this change.
> - Update the legacy path to match.
>
> net/Kconfig | 9 +++++----
> net/eth-uclass.c | 2 ++
> net/eth_legacy.c | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
> index 7a2d14501881..cabe93c6bd29 100644
> --- a/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/Kconfig
> @@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ config BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
> config NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR
> bool "Random ethaddr if unset"
> help
> - Selecting this will allow the Ethernet interface to function
> - even when the ethaddr variable for that interface is unset.
> - A new MAC address will be generated on every boot and it will
> - not be added to the environment.
> + Selecting this will allow the Ethernet interface to function even
> + when the ethaddr variable for that interface is unset. In this case,
> + a random MAC address in the locally administered address space is
> + generated. It will be saved to the appropriate environment variable,
> + too.
>
> config NETCONSOLE
> bool "NetConsole support"
> diff --git a/net/eth-uclass.c b/net/eth-uclass.c
> index 0da0e85be031..58c308f33276 100644
> --- a/net/eth-uclass.c
> +++ b/net/eth-uclass.c
> @@ -583,6 +583,8 @@ static int eth_post_probe(struct udevice *dev)
> net_random_ethaddr(pdata->enetaddr);
> printf("\nWarning: %s (eth%d) using random MAC address - %pM\n",
> dev->name, dev_seq(dev), pdata->enetaddr);
> + eth_env_set_enetaddr_by_index("eth", dev_seq(dev),
> + pdata->enetaddr);
> #else
> printf("\nError: %s address not set.\n",
> dev->name);
> diff --git a/net/eth_legacy.c b/net/eth_legacy.c
> index f383ccce0b92..0b282d918bec 100644
> --- a/net/eth_legacy.c
> +++ b/net/eth_legacy.c
> @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ int eth_write_hwaddr(struct eth_device *dev, const char *base_name,
> net_random_ethaddr(dev->enetaddr);
> printf("\nWarning: %s (eth%d) using random MAC address - %pM\n",
> dev->name, eth_number, dev->enetaddr);
> + eth_env_set_enetaddr_by_index("eth", eth_number,
> + dev->enetaddr);
> #else
> printf("\nError: %s address not set.\n",
> dev->name);
Applied.
M
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