From patchwork Wed Jun 5 20:42:27 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Robert Hancock X-Patchwork-Id: 1110705 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 45K12g0KcBz9sND for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2019 06:43:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726787AbfFEUnF (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2019 16:43:05 -0400 Received: from sed198n136.SEDSystems.ca ([198.169.180.136]:41863 "EHLO sed198n136.sedsystems.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726731AbfFEUnB (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2019 16:43:01 -0400 Received: from barney.sedsystems.ca (barney [198.169.180.121]) by sed198n136.sedsystems.ca with ESMTP id x55Kgqrr009251 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:42:57 -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 x55Kghj6021149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:42:52 -0600 From: Robert Hancock To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: anirudh@xilinx.com, John.Linn@xilinx.com, andrew@lunn.ch, Robert Hancock Subject: [PATCH net-next v4 14/20] net: axienet: Make missing MAC address non-fatal Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:42:27 -0600 Message-Id: <1559767353-17301-15-git-send-email-hancock@sedsystems.ca> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1559767353-17301-1-git-send-email-hancock@sedsystems.ca> References: <1559767353-17301-1-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 --- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c index fba59c5..7b38819 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c @@ -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);