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Message-ID: <20240910220913.14101-1-rosenp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:09:13 -0700
From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: andrew@...n.ch,
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Subject: [PATCHv2 net-next] net: gianfar: fix NVMEM mac address

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@...il.com>
 v2: use goto instead of return
---
 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 2baef59f741d..ecb1703ea150 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -754,6 +754,8 @@ 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)
+		goto err_grp_init;
 	if (err) {
 		eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
 		dev_info(&ofdev->dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n", dev->dev_addr);
-- 
2.46.0