From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org (open list:FREESCALE SOC FS_ENET
DRIVER), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: fs_enet: allow nvmem to override MAC address
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:46:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260224014607.353378-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)
NVMEM typically loads after the ethernet driver and
of_get_ethdev_address returns -EPROBE_DEFER. return in such a case to
allow NVMEM to work.
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
index 2cbcc29408e3..d3c772ed5fc9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
@@ -951,7 +951,9 @@ static int fs_enet_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
spin_lock_init(&fep->lock);
spin_lock_init(&fep->tx_lock);
- of_get_ethdev_address(ofdev->dev.of_node, ndev);
+ ret = of_get_ethdev_address(ofdev->dev.of_node, ndev);
+ if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ goto out_cleanup_data;
ret = fep->ops->allocate_bd(ndev);
if (ret)
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-24 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-24 1:46 Rosen Penev [this message]
2026-02-24 8:29 ` [PATCH net-next] net: fs_enet: allow nvmem to override MAC address Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-02-24 8:58 ` Rosen Penev
2026-02-26 3:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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