Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: manage errors returned by of_get_mac_address() | From | Neil Armstrong <> | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:03:39 +0200 |
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On 27/07/2019 21:21, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: > Commit d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address") > added support for reading the MAC address from an nvmem-cell. This > required changing the logic to return an error pointer upon failure. > > If stmmac is loaded before the nvmem provider driver then > of_get_mac_address() return an error pointer with -EPROBE_DEFER. > > Propagate this error so the stmmac driver will be probed again after the > nvmem provider driver is loaded. > Default to a random generated MAC address in case of any other error, > instead of using the error pointer as MAC address. > > Fixes: d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address") > Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c > index 73fc2524372e..154daf4d1072 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c > @@ -370,6 +370,13 @@ stmmac_probe_config_dt(struct platform_device *pdev, const char **mac) > return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); > > *mac = of_get_mac_address(np); > + if (IS_ERR(*mac)) { > + if (PTR_ERR(*mac) == -EPROBE_DEFER) > + return ERR_CAST(*mac); > + > + *mac = NULL; > + } > + > plat->interface = of_get_phy_mode(np); > > /* Some wrapper drivers still rely on phy_node. Let's save it while >
Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
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