Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 5 authors, 2018-03-31
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[PATCH v3 2/2] net: macb: Try to retrieve MAC addess from nvmem provider

From: Mike Looijmans <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-27 09:52:39
Also in: linux-devicetree, lkml
Subsystem: atmel macb ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Théo Lebrun, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Call of_get_nvmem_mac_address() to fetch the MAC address from an nvmem
cell, if one is provided in the device tree. This allows the address to
be stored in an I2C EEPROM device for example.

Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index e84afcf..eabe14f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -3950,10 +3950,16 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		dev->max_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
 
 	mac = of_get_mac_address(np);
-	if (mac)
+	if (mac) {
 		ether_addr_copy(bp->dev->dev_addr, mac);
-	else
-		macb_get_hwaddr(bp);
+	} else {
+		err = of_get_nvmem_mac_address(np, bp->dev->dev_addr);
+		if (err) {
+			if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+				goto err_out_free_netdev;
+			macb_get_hwaddr(bp);
+		}
+	}
 
 	err = of_get_phy_mode(np);
 	if (err < 0) {
-- 
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