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net: bgmac-platform: handle mac-address deferral
authorMatthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com>
Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:36:27 +0000 (11:36 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:28:15 +0000 (12:28 +0100)
commita7a7c5e0aa3c389d7b33bb90df8c4a96b781e0b9
treeae943ba6851b97628aa454d7ac554c8a86d0e243
parent156d381a00d90c34281a3088a5574fff649c5a82
net: bgmac-platform: handle mac-address deferral

This patch is a replication of Christian Lamparter's "net: bgmac-bcma:
handle deferred probe error due to mac-address" patch for the
bgmac-platform driver [1].

As is the case with the bgmac-bcma driver, this change is to cover the
scenario where the MAC address cannot yet be discovered due to reliance
on an nvmem provider which is yet to be instantiated, resulting in a
random address being assigned that has to be manually overridden.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210919115725.29064-1-chunkeey@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Matthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c