Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2025-05-27

[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.14 4/5] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Lower random mac address error print to info

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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-05-27 02:37:44
Also in: linux-patches, lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

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From: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>

[ Upstream commit 50980d8da71a0c2e045e85bba93c0099ab73a209 ]

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@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250516122655.442808-1-nm@ti.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c
index afe8127fd32be..15bae216be2a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/am65-cpsw-nuss.c
@@ -2775,7 +2775,7 @@ static int am65_cpsw_nuss_init_slave_ports(struct am65_cpsw_common *common)
 							port->slave.mac_addr);
 			if (!is_valid_ether_addr(port->slave.mac_addr)) {
 				eth_random_addr(port->slave.mac_addr);
-				dev_err(dev, "Use random MAC address\n");
+				dev_info(dev, "Use random MAC address\n");
 			}
 		}
 
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