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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt2
-rw-r--r--drivers/of/of_net.c40
-rw-r--r--include/linux/of_net.h6
3 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
index 2974e63ba311..cfc376bc977a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt.
the boot program; should be used in cases where the MAC address assigned to
the device by the boot program is different from the "local-mac-address"
property;
+- nvmem-cells: phandle, reference to an nvmem node for the MAC address;
+- nvmem-cell-names: string, should be "mac-address" if nvmem is to be used;
- max-speed: number, specifies maximum speed in Mbit/s supported by the device;
- max-frame-size: number, maximum transfer unit (IEEE defined MTU), rather than
the maximum frame size (there's contradiction in the Devicetree
diff --git a/drivers/of/of_net.c b/drivers/of/of_net.c
index d820f3edd431..53189d4022a6 100644
--- a/drivers/of/of_net.c
+++ b/drivers/of/of_net.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/nvmem-consumer.h>
#include <linux/of_net.h>
#include <linux/phy.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
@@ -80,3 +81,42 @@ const void *of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np)
return of_get_mac_addr(np, "address");
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_mac_address);
+
+/**
+ * Obtain the MAC address from an nvmem provider named 'mac-address' through
+ * device tree.
+ * On success, copies the new address into memory pointed to by addr and
+ * returns 0. Returns a negative error code otherwise.
+ * @np: Device tree node containing the nvmem-cells phandle
+ * @addr: Pointer to receive the MAC address using ether_addr_copy()
+ */
+int of_get_nvmem_mac_address(struct device_node *np, void *addr)
+{
+ struct nvmem_cell *cell;
+ const void *mac;
+ size_t len;
+ int ret;
+
+ cell = of_nvmem_cell_get(np, "mac-address");
+ if (IS_ERR(cell))
+ return PTR_ERR(cell);
+
+ mac = nvmem_cell_read(cell, &len);
+
+ nvmem_cell_put(cell);
+
+ if (IS_ERR(mac))
+ return PTR_ERR(mac);
+
+ if (len < ETH_ALEN || !is_valid_ether_addr(mac)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ } else {
+ ether_addr_copy(addr, mac);
+ ret = 0;
+ }
+
+ kfree(mac);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_nvmem_mac_address);
diff --git a/include/linux/of_net.h b/include/linux/of_net.h
index 9cd72aab76fe..90d81ee9e6a0 100644
--- a/include/linux/of_net.h
+++ b/include/linux/of_net.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
struct net_device;
extern int of_get_phy_mode(struct device_node *np);
extern const void *of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np);
+extern int of_get_nvmem_mac_address(struct device_node *np, void *addr);
extern struct net_device *of_find_net_device_by_node(struct device_node *np);
#else
static inline int of_get_phy_mode(struct device_node *np)
@@ -25,6 +26,11 @@ static inline const void *of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np)
return NULL;
}
+static inline int of_get_nvmem_mac_address(struct device_node *np, void *addr)
+{
+ return -ENODEV;
+}
+
static inline struct net_device *of_find_net_device_by_node(struct device_node *np)
{
return NULL;