# Re: \[PATCH 1/3\] net: ocelot: add support to get mac from device-tree

- From: Vladimir Oltean \<vladimir.oltean@nxp.com\>
- Date: 2021-10-28 14:23:04 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/10/1556970
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/10/1556906/t.md

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 04:15:22PM +0200, Clément Léger wrote:
> Le Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:06:12 +0000,
> Vladimir Oltean [ref] a écrit :
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:49:30PM +0200, Clément Léger wrote:
> > > Add support to get mac from device-tree using of_get_mac_address.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <clement.leger@bootlin.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_vsc7514.c | 5 ++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_vsc7514.c
> > > b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_vsc7514.c index
> > > d51f799e4e86..c39118e5b3ee 100644 ---
> > > a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_vsc7514.c +++
> > > b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_vsc7514.c @@ -526,7 +526,10 @@
> > > static int ocelot_chip_init(struct ocelot *ocelot, const struct
> > > ocelot_ops *ops) ocelot_pll5_init(ocelot);
> > >  
> > > -	eth_random_addr(ocelot->base_mac);
> > > +	ret = of_get_mac_address(ocelot->dev->of_node,
> > > ocelot->base_mac);  
> > 
> > Why not per port? This is pretty strange, I think.
> 
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> Currently, all ports share the same base mac address (5 first
> bytes). The final mac address per port is computed in ocelot_probe_port
> by adding the port number as the last byte of the mac_address provided.
> 
> Clément

Yes, I know that, but that's not my point.
Every switch port should be pretty much compliant with
ethernet-controller.yaml, if it could inherit that it would be even
better. And since mac-address is an ethernet-controller.yaml property,
it is pretty much non-obvious at all that you put the mac-address
property directly under the switch, and manually add 0, 1, 2, 3 etc to it.
My request was to parse the mac-address property of each port. Like
this:

base_mac = random;

for_each_port() {
	err = of_get_mac_address(port_dn, &port_mac);
	if (err)
		port_mac = base_mac + port;
}

> > > +	if (ret)
> > > +		eth_random_addr(ocelot->base_mac);
> > > +
> > >  	ocelot->base_mac[5] &= 0xf0;
> > >  
> > >  	return 0;
> > > -- 
> > > 2.33.0
> >   
>
```