From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jacob.e.keller@intel.com, horms@kernel.org, sd@queasysnail.net,
chunkeey@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCHv2 net-next] net: gianfar: fix NVMEM mac address
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:09:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240910220913.14101-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)
If nvmem loads after the ethernet driver, mac address assignments will
not take effect. of_get_ethdev_address returns EPROBE_DEFER in such a
case so we need to handle that to avoid eth_hw_addr_random.
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
v2: use goto instead of return
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index 2baef59f741d..ecb1703ea150 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -754,6 +754,8 @@ static int gfar_of_init(struct platform_device *ofdev, struct net_device **pdev)
priv->device_flags |= FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_BUF_STASHING;
err = of_get_ethdev_address(np, dev);
+ if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ goto err_grp_init;
if (err) {
eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
dev_info(&ofdev->dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n", dev->dev_addr);
--
2.46.0
next reply other threads:[~2024-09-10 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-10 22:09 Rosen Penev [this message]
2024-09-11 14:30 ` [PATCHv2 net-next] net: gianfar: fix NVMEM mac address Simon Horman
2024-09-12 0:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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