[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 1/2] generic: support mtd-mac-address-ascii

[Yousong Zhou]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 20:35, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
>
> Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com> [2019-06-08 15:54:41]:
>
> Hi,
>
> > It supports formats of both 001122334455 and 00:11:22:33:44:55
>
> mtd-mac-address was rejected upstream[1], so I'm not sure if we should add new
> features to it and promote its usage as it's probably going to make the switch
> to the upstream provided solution harder in the future.
>
> As mtd-mac-address was rejected, I went ahead and added NVMEM support to
> of_get_mac_address[2] which was accepted and you can see already working
> example in my staging tree in the wip/nvmem-mac-address branch.
>
> In order to support MAC addresses stored in ASCII, we would probably need to
> add support for multiple reg value pairs into the nvmem core as suggested by
> the nvmem core maintainer[3].
>
> On top of that, we would need to add proper support for nvmem cells[4] under
> MTD partitions, because currently it doesn't work, MTD layer is simply treat
> those nvmem cells as sub partitions.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  ...et-sched-Introduce-act_ctinfo-action.patch |  18 ----
> >  ...et-sched-Introduce-act_ctinfo-action.patch |  20 ----
> >  .../generic/hack-4.9/220-gc_sections.patch    |   2 +-
>
> probably some leftovers from other patch?
>
> 1. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1086628/#2154562
> 2. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/?series=105972&state=*
> 3. https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg570314.html
> 4. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/7/972
>
> -- ynezz

Hi,  Thanks for the information.  I will mark the series as changes
requested for now and re-send when the nvmem code is ready.

        yousong

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