[Intel-wired-lan] [next] igb: allow setting MAC address on i211 using a device tree blob

[Shannon Nelson]

It seem to me this should be using eth_platform_get_mac_address(), a
slightly more generic method to do this.  See the i40e driver for an
example, commit d9a84324e6 I believe.

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On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
>> > +       dn = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "intel,i211");
>
> Humm, NULL, NULL. That means find the first node anywhere in the
> device tree which matches. This is not going to work too well when you
> have multiple i211s.
>
> There is a way so specify a DT node is attached to a specific PCIe
> bus/slot. I think you should search only there, so solving the
> multiple device issue.
>
>          Andrew



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