From patchwork Fri May 31 18:15:41 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Robert Hancock X-Patchwork-Id: 1108513 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming-netdev@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming-netdev@ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=vger.kernel.org (client-ip=209.132.180.67; helo=vger.kernel.org; envelope-from=netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org; receiver=) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=sedsystems.ca Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FtKq6kfQz9s4V for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2019 04:30:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727124AbfEaSaX (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 May 2019 14:30:23 -0400 Received: from sed198n136.SEDSystems.ca ([198.169.180.136]:25532 "EHLO sed198n136.sedsystems.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726967AbfEaSaU (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 May 2019 14:30:20 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 854 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 31 May 2019 14:30:19 EDT Received: from barney.sedsystems.ca (barney [198.169.180.121]) by sed198n136.sedsystems.ca with ESMTP id x4VIGFU8027094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 31 May 2019 12:16:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from SED.RFC1918.192.168.sedsystems.ca (eng1n65.eng.sedsystems.ca [172.21.1.65]) by barney.sedsystems.ca (8.14.7/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x4VIG5Dr043766 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 31 May 2019 12:16:14 -0600 From: Robert Hancock To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: anirudh@xilinx.com, John.Linn@xilinx.com, Robert Hancock Subject: [PATCH net-next 09/13] net: axienet: Make missing MAC address non-fatal Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 12:15:41 -0600 Message-Id: <1559326545-28825-10-git-send-email-hancock@sedsystems.ca> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1559326545-28825-1-git-send-email-hancock@sedsystems.ca> References: <1559326545-28825-1-git-send-email-hancock@sedsystems.ca> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 198.169.180.136 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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: Robert Hancock Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn --- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c index 9949e67..947fa5d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static void axienet_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, { struct axienet_local *lp = netdev_priv(ndev); - if (address) + if (!IS_ERR(address)) memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, address, ETH_ALEN); if (!is_valid_ether_addr(ndev->dev_addr)) eth_hw_addr_random(ndev); @@ -1730,8 +1730,7 @@ 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\n"); } axienet_set_mac_address(ndev, mac_addr);