Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: macb: Drop nvmem_get_mac_address usage

Andrew Lunn
2019-04-28T21:36:46Z

> so if I understand this correctly, it probably means, that this approach with
> modified of_get_mac_address is dead end as current of_get_mac_address users
> don't expect and handle possible -EPROBE_DEFER error, so I would need to
> change all the current users, which is nonsense.

Hi Petr

I would not say it is dead, it just needs a bit more work.

The current users should always be checking for a NULL pointer. You
just need to change that to !IS_ERR(). You can then return
ERR_PTR(-PROBE_DEFER) from the NVMEM operation.

And i agree, wrapping this all up inside of_get_mac_address() is the
correct way to do this.

Andrew