[PATCH net] net: ethernet: mv643xx: Fix over zealous checking of_get_mac_address()

[PATCH net] net: ethernet: mv643xx: Fix over zealous checking of_get_mac_address()

[Andrew Lunn]

There is often not a MAC address available in an EEPROM accessible by
Linux with Marvell devices. Instead the bootload has the MAC address
and directly programs it into the hardware. So don't consider an error
from of_get_mac_address() has fatal. However, the check was added for
the case where there is a MAC address in an the EEPROM, but the EEPROM
has not probed yet, and -EPROBE_DEFER is returned. In that case the
error should be returned. So make the check specific to this error
code.

Cc: Mauri Sandberg <maukka@ext.kapsi.fi>
Reported-by: Thomas Walther <walther-it@gmx.de>
Fixes: 42404d8f1c01 ("net: mv643xx_eth: process retval from of_get_mac_address")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
index 5f9ab1842d49..c18801490649 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
@@ -2751,7 +2751,7 @@ static int mv643xx_eth_shared_of_add_port(struct platform_device *pdev,
 	}
 
 	ret = of_get_mac_address(pnp, ppd.mac_addr);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
 		return ret;
 
 	mv643xx_eth_property(pnp, "tx-queue-size", ppd.tx_queue_size);
-- 
2.35.1

Re: [PATCH net] net: ethernet: mv643xx: Fix over zealous checking of_get_mac_address()

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Tue,  5 Apr 2022 02:04:04 +0200 you wrote:
> There is often not a MAC address available in an EEPROM accessible by
> Linux with Marvell devices. Instead the bootload has the MAC address
> and directly programs it into the hardware. So don't consider an error
> from of_get_mac_address() has fatal. However, the check was added for
> the case where there is a MAC address in an the EEPROM, but the EEPROM
> has not probed yet, and -EPROBE_DEFER is returned. In that case the
> error should be returned. So make the check specific to this error
> code.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: ethernet: mv643xx: Fix over zealous checking of_get_mac_address()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/11f8e7c122ce

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