Commit d0337163 authored by Florian Fainelli's avatar Florian Fainelli Committed by David S. Miller

net: bcmgenet: Generate a random MAC if none is valid

Instead of having a hard failure and stopping the driver's probe
routine, generate a random Ethernet MAC address to keep going.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDoug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e9c43add
......@@ -3461,16 +3461,10 @@ static int bcmgenet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto err;
}
if (dn) {
if (dn)
macaddr = of_get_mac_address(dn);
if (IS_ERR(macaddr)) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "can't find MAC address\n");
err = -EINVAL;
goto err;
}
} else {
else
macaddr = pd->mac_address;
}
priv->base = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
if (IS_ERR(priv->base)) {
......@@ -3482,7 +3476,12 @@ static int bcmgenet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev);
dev_set_drvdata(&pdev->dev, dev);
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(macaddr) || !is_valid_ether_addr(macaddr)) {
dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "using random Ethernet MAC\n");
eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
} else {
ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, macaddr);
}
dev->watchdog_timeo = 2 * HZ;
dev->ethtool_ops = &bcmgenet_ethtool_ops;
dev->netdev_ops = &bcmgenet_netdev_ops;
......
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