linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: ethernet: dm9000: Handle -EPROBE_DEFER in dm9000_parse

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Message-Id: <20200216193943.81134-1-paul@crapouillou.net>
Date:   Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:39:43 -0300
From:   Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>,
        "H . Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>,
        Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ethernet: dm9000: Handle -EPROBE_DEFER in dm9000_parse_dt()

The call to of_get_mac_address() can return -EPROBE_DEFER, for instance
when the MAC address is read from a NVMEM driver that did not probe yet.

Cc: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@...delico.com>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
index 1ea3372775e6..e94ae9b94dbf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c
@@ -1405,6 +1405,8 @@ static struct dm9000_plat_data *dm9000_parse_dt(struct device *dev)
 	mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(np);
 	if (!IS_ERR(mac_addr))
 		ether_addr_copy(pdata->dev_addr, mac_addr);
+	else if (PTR_ERR(mac_addr) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+		return ERR_CAST(mac_addr);
 
 	return pdata;
 }
-- 
2.25.0