From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C73D83BFAEB for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789698632; cv=none; b=RZ4hlLd3ZSyGpr5BISQGqbeCEULWXX93Q8I8iCIo8je4fdo8qb03zxsMbEXzBNAs7DvRC5XaPLfL9MjLVCprYkjIZjWFL1LdiVykQbAZ/0b5sZvM9BVnUPLCHdBRcefbkXgUKgs1rbbH/V32ukuWYiywbBkfyx3bFfM7ZD9zAg8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789698632; c=relaxed/simple; bh=yHUivfFU7qlUaZppomgzcNlfw0RapaHanUo/BAzXze4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=AF9AGbufjkmCaebBDFucATQToOFbJnbWDBHU6wBK+WofgrxBdzBEynpvPTpgTPAJVVw5TcIPa8iZLY8FC9nk7WsIlURYNty5VfSDQZ7xsB5UVuJm1gm/gPUuErZYKomj78Z813Bp+qv0AaBmS+7W9KCoT8UaAfCfN+CXj5r3C8o= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=GNybPAbc; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="GNybPAbc" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=u+WJMZPTdsBV3O8R/WKXRr4qtbJ4eOiMicexx5vtJKE=; b=GNybPAbcOE5C7MwaxEMafEr65K xsk3YSWRabA0LwsEisRdvPqsmQjzO+eTadgYhaYASguaHcAmnsoYbUMsawxE9NJkyRJikRKZZ+6s1 74F5cCvxos5gCrAc8qD2VHZRjpXUZwhV25N9dLWpXornfx5eY00WkaVYhxum12Y01u0c=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1x7OMh-005msj-Vy; Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:30:15 +0200 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:30:15 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Ivan Delalande Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Michael Chan , Pavan Chebbi , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Vincent MORVAN , Atharva Tiwari Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] tg3: use random MAC address when tg3_get_device_address fails Message-ID: <0cb5dcee-4b94-4779-ae4d-ebaa429bd21a@lunn.ch> References: <20260917223416.GA245819@visor> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260917223416.GA245819@visor> > + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER) { > + dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, err, "ethernet address provider not ready\n"); Please go read the documentation for dev_err_probe() Andrew --- pw-bot: cr