[PATCH net-next] net: fs_enet: allow nvmem to override MAC address
From: Rosen Penev <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-24 01:46:25
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Subsystem:
freescale soc fs_enet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Pantelis Antoniou, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
NVMEM typically loads after the ethernet driver and of_get_ethdev_address returns -EPROBE_DEFER. return in such a case to allow NVMEM to work. Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
index 2cbcc29408e3..d3c772ed5fc9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c@@ -951,7 +951,9 @@ static int fs_enet_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev) spin_lock_init(&fep->lock); spin_lock_init(&fep->tx_lock); - of_get_ethdev_address(ofdev->dev.of_node, ndev); + ret = of_get_ethdev_address(ofdev->dev.of_node, ndev); + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) + goto out_cleanup_data; ret = fep->ops->allocate_bd(ndev); if (ret) --
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