* [PATCHv2 wireless] wifi: mt76: fix MAC address for non OF pcie cards
@ 2026-07-06 23:28 Rosen Penev
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From: Rosen Penev @ 2026-07-06 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless
Cc: Felix Fietkau, Lorenzo Bianconi, Ryder Lee, Shayne Chen,
Sean Wang, Matthias Brugger, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno,
Rosen Penev, open list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support,
moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support,
moderated list:ARM/Mediatek SoC support
If seems the check for err is wrong as the proper macaddr gets written
to from the EEPROM itself. Meaning checking err from of_get_mac_address is
wrong as the proper macaddr has been written by this point.
Reported-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ajRmlyx_AEGybykL@soda.int.kasm.eu/
Reported-by: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@schwarzvogel.de>
Closes:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/30a90714-02d8-45f2-a7f1-4cfe0627d50b@skade.local/
Fixes: 31ee1582717e ("wifi: mt76: fix of_get_mac_address error handling")
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@schwarzvogel.de>
Tested-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com>
---
v2: add extra tags and target wireless
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
index b99d7452800f..afdb73661866 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ mt76_eeprom_override(struct mt76_phy *phy)
if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
return err;
- if (err) {
+ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(phy->macaddr)) {
eth_random_addr(phy->macaddr);
dev_info(dev->dev,
"Invalid MAC address, using random address %pM\n",
--
2.55.0
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