netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: sparx5: Fix reading of the MAC address

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Date:   Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:50:16 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>
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        linqiheng@...wei.com, nathan@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: sparx5: Fix reading of the MAC address

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 13:12:15 +0100 you wrote:
> There is an issue with the checking of the return value of
> 'of_get_mac_address', which returns 0 on success and negative value on
> failure. The driver interpretated the result the opposite way. Therefore
> if there was a MAC address defined in the DT, then the driver was
> generating a random MAC address otherwise it would use address 0.
> Fix this by checking correctly the return value of 'of_get_mac_address'
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: sparx5: Fix reading of the MAC address
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/588ab2dc25f6

You are awesome, thank you!
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