Commit d05a9ed5 authored by Robert Hancock's avatar Robert Hancock Committed by David S. Miller

net: axienet: Make missing MAC address non-fatal

Failing initialization on a missing MAC address property is excessive.
We can just fall back to using a random MAC instead, which at least
leaves the interface in a functioning state.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Hancock <hancock@sedsystems.ca>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7de44285
......@@ -1733,8 +1733,9 @@ static int axienet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
/* Retrieve the MAC address */
mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(pdev->dev.of_node);
if (IS_ERR(mac_addr)) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not find MAC address\n");
goto free_netdev;
dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "could not find MAC address property: %ld\n",
PTR_ERR(mac_addr));
mac_addr = NULL;
}
axienet_set_mac_address(ndev, mac_addr);
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