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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-19 13:05:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-19 13:05:14 -0800
commit5c56f466835d20fc4f7119063a8c029f7170a317 (patch)
treecfa8afcea4defb59de32c501245bae16d0fdc5d0 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parentdd397a6d1ae125686d97a20f983778c331093206 (diff)
parentc2944612cf30aece4526f23e96e1d234a1870ed6 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (34 commits) [POWERPC] 86xx: Cleaned up platform dts files [POWERPC] 85xx: Renamed MPC8568 MDS board code to match other boards [POWERPC] 85xx: Cleaning up machine probing [POWERPC] QE: clean up ucc_slow.c and ucc_fast.c [POWERPC] 85xx: Cleaned up platform dts files [POWERPC] 83xx: Renamed MPC8323 MDS dts and defconfig to match other boards [POWERPC] 83xx: Updated and renamed MPC8360PB to MPC836x MDS [POWERPC] 83xx: Use of_platform_bus_probe to setup QE devices [POWERPC] 83xx: use default value of loops_per_jiffy [POWERPC] 83xx: Remove obsolete setting of ROOT_DEV. [POWERPC] 83xx: Cleaning up machine probing and board initcalls [POWERPC] Dispose irq mapping when done in mpc52xx_serial.c [POWERPC] 86xx: Add missing of_node_put() in mpc86xx_hpcn_init_irq(). [POWERPC] 8[56]xx: Remove obsolete setting of ROOT_DEV for 85xx and 86xx platforms. [POWERPC] pseries: Enabling auto poweron after power is restored. [POWERPC] use winbond libata instead of ide driver for pseries CD drives [POWERPC] powerpc: remove references to the obsolete linux,platform property [POWERPC] add of_get_mac_address and update fsl_soc.c to use it [POWERPC] 83xx: Cleaned up 83xx platform dts files [POWERPC] Fix bug with early ioremap and 64k pages ...
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c1
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c40
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 3e86e6e0f778..8d52b23348bd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -1599,6 +1599,7 @@ struct property *of_find_property(const struct device_node *np,
return pp;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_property);
/*
* Find a property with a given name for a given node
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c
index 12c51e4ad2b4..ea6fd552c7ea 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/pci_regs.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
+#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <asm/prom.h>
#include <asm/pci-bridge.h>
@@ -1003,3 +1004,42 @@ int of_irq_map_one(struct device_node *device, int index, struct of_irq *out_irq
return res;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_irq_map_one);
+
+/**
+ * Search the device tree for the best MAC address to use. 'mac-address' is
+ * checked first, because that is supposed to contain to "most recent" MAC
+ * address. If that isn't set, then 'local-mac-address' is checked next,
+ * because that is the default address. If that isn't set, then the obsolete
+ * 'address' is checked, just in case we're using an old device tree.
+ *
+ * Note that the 'address' property is supposed to contain a virtual address of
+ * the register set, but some DTS files have redefined that property to be the
+ * MAC address.
+ *
+ * All-zero MAC addresses are rejected, because those could be properties that
+ * exist in the device tree, but were not set by U-Boot. For example, the
+ * DTS could define 'mac-address' and 'local-mac-address', with zero MAC
+ * addresses. Some older U-Boots only initialized 'local-mac-address'. In
+ * this case, the real MAC is in 'local-mac-address', and 'mac-address' exists
+ * but is all zeros.
+*/
+const void *of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np)
+{
+ struct property *pp;
+
+ pp = of_find_property(np, "mac-address", NULL);
+ if (pp && (pp->length == 6) && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value))
+ return pp->value;
+
+ pp = of_find_property(np, "local-mac-address", NULL);
+ if (pp && (pp->length == 6) && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value))
+ return pp->value;
+
+ pp = of_find_property(np, "address", NULL);
+ if (pp && (pp->length == 6) && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value))
+ return pp->value;
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_mac_address);
+