[PATCH] ARM: atags: add support for Marvell's u-boot

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jun 3 13:09:54 EDT 2013


Dear Jason Cooper,

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:57:53 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:

> Won't this override a user editing the 'local-mac-address' property in
> the dts?  Since we're dealing with appended dtbs, there's a higher
> probability of the user doing such a thing.
> 
> I'll admit it's a corner case, but I'd like to make sure we've thought
> through the use cases and aren't making things more complicated than
> necessary.

I don't have a strong opinion about this one, so if it's seen as being
necessary to preserve a potentially existing 'local-mac-address', then
I'll add the necessary checks to only update the property if it doesn't
already exist.

Best regards,

Thomas
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