From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Marcin Wojtas <marcin.s.wojtas@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>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] net: mvneta: support EPROBE_DEFER when reading MAC address
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:30:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abBHFYwdoMQvIF-I@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260307031709.640141-1-rosenp@gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 07:17:09PM -0800, Rosen Penev wrote:
> 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.
>
> Add extra goto section to just free stats as they are allocated right
> above.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: free stats on probe defer.
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-07 3:17 [PATCHv2 net-next] net: mvneta: support EPROBE_DEFER when reading MAC address Rosen Penev
2026-03-10 16:30 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-03-11 2:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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