Re: [PATCH v2] net: mv643xx_eth: process retval from of_get_mac_address

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 08:57:54AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:23:37 +0200 Mauri Sandberg wrote:
> > Obtaining a MAC address may be deferred in cases when the MAC is stored
> > in an NVMEM block, for example, and it may not be ready upon the first
> > retrieval attempt and return EPROBE_DEFER.
> > 
> > It is also possible that a port that does not rely on NVMEM has been
> > already created when getting the defer request. Thus, also the resources
> > allocated previously must be freed when doing a roll-back.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mauri Sandberg <maukka@ext.kapsi.fi>
> > Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> 
> While we wait for Andrew's ack, is this the correct fixes tag?
> 
> Fixes: 76723bca2802 ("net: mv643xx_eth: add DT parsing support")


Yes, that looks correct. The history around here is convoluted, and
anybody trying to backport that far is going to need a few different
versions.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

    Andrew