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* [PATCH net-next] net: gianfar: fix NVMEM mac address
@ 2024-09-08 21:35 Rosen Penev
  2024-09-09  4:22 ` Pavan Chebbi
  2024-09-09  8:55 ` Simon Horman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Rosen Penev @ 2024-09-08 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev
  Cc: andrew, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni, linux-kernel,
	claudiu.manoil, mail

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>
---
 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 634049c83ebe..9755ec947029 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -716,6 +716,8 @@ 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)
+		return err;
 	if (err) {
 		eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
 		dev_info(&ofdev->dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n", dev->dev_addr);
-- 
2.46.0


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2024-09-09 17:52   ` Rosen Penev
2024-09-09  8:55 ` Simon Horman
2024-09-09 18:11   ` Rosen Penev
2024-09-09 18:20     ` Rosen Penev
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