Switch mtd-mac-address to nvmem implementation

Petr Štetiar ynezz at true.cz
Wed Mar 31 11:25:55 BST 2021


Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> [2021-03-29 00:56:33]:

Hi,

> The pending nvmem patches have been applied to mtd/next.

cool, congrats!

> Some time ago I also sent a patch with the mtd-mac-address-increment-byte
> upstream but it got rejected since dts should not contain this kind of binding.

Yeah, -EUPSTREAM :-) Resistance is futile.

> With a quick search, there are LOTS of dts that use these special bindings
> and it would take a lot of time to convert all the dts. (think the best approach
> would be to convert the dts one target at time)

I think, that if you're willing to do that tedious hardwork, it's better to
tackle all this at once. Prepare the changes, ask for testing and once we've
few Tested-by: across popular targets it should be ready to merge.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Petr



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