of_net: Implement of_get_nvmem_mac_address helper

It's common practice to store MAC addresses for network interfaces into
nvmem devices. However the code to actually do this in the kernel lacks,
so this patch adds of_get_nvmem_mac_address() for drivers to obtain the
address from an nvmem cell provider.

This is particulary useful on devices where the ethernet interface cannot
be configured by the bootloader, for example because it's in an FPGA.

Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

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);