linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Lower random mac address error print to info

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Message-ID: <20250519160237.GJ365796@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 17:02:37 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@...com>,
	Roger Quadros <rogerq@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Lower random mac address
 error print to info

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 07:26:55AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Using random mac address is not an error since the driver continues to
> function, it should be informative that the system has not assigned
> a MAC address. This is inline with other drivers such as ax88796c,
> dm9051 etc. Drop the error level to info level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
> ---
> 
> This is esp irritating on platforms such as J721E-IDK-GW which has a
> bunch of ethernet interfaces, and not all of them have MAC address
> assigned from Efuse.
> Example log (next-20250515):
> https://gist.github.com/nmenon/8edbc1773c150a5be69f5b700d907ceb#file-j721e-idk-gw-L1588

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>