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Message-ID: <20241022002245.843242-6-rosenp@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:22:45 -0700
From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@....com>,
	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCHv8 net-next 5/5] net: ibm: emac: generate random MAC if not found

On this Cisco MX60W, u-boot sets the local-mac-address property.
Unfortunately by default, the MAC is wrong and is actually located on a
UBI partition. Which means nvmem needs to be used to grab it.

In the case where that fails, EMAC fails to initialize instead of
generating a random MAC as many other drivers do.

Match behavior with other drivers to have a working ethernet interface.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
index 1f45f2a78829..25b8a3556004 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
@@ -2937,9 +2937,12 @@ static int emac_init_config(struct emac_instance *dev)
 
 	/* Read MAC-address */
 	err = of_get_ethdev_address(np, dev->ndev);
-	if (err)
-		return dev_err_probe(&dev->ofdev->dev, err,
-				     "Can't get valid [local-]mac-address from OF !\n");
+	if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+		return err;
+	if (err) {
+		dev_warn(&dev->ofdev->dev, "Can't get valid mac-address. Generating random.");
+		eth_hw_addr_random(dev->ndev);
+	}
 
 	/* IAHT and GAHT filter parameterization */
 	if (emac_has_feature(dev, EMAC_FTR_EMAC4SYNC)) {
-- 
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