From: Vinod Koul Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 09:45:32 +0000 (+0530) Subject: net: stmmac: move stmmac_check_ether_addr() to driver probe X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b561af36b1841088552464cdc3f6371d92f17710;p=linux.git net: stmmac: move stmmac_check_ether_addr() to driver probe stmmac_check_ether_addr() checks the MAC address and assigns one in driver open(). In many cases when we create slave netdevice, the dev addr is inherited from master but the master dev addr maybe NULL at that time, so move this call to driver probe so that address is always valid. Signed-off-by: Xiaofei Shen Tested-by: Xiaofei Shen Signed-off-by: Sneh Shah Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c index a26e36dbb5df0..48712437d0da8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -2616,8 +2616,6 @@ static int stmmac_open(struct net_device *dev) u32 chan; int ret; - stmmac_check_ether_addr(priv); - if (priv->hw->pcs != STMMAC_PCS_RGMII && priv->hw->pcs != STMMAC_PCS_TBI && priv->hw->pcs != STMMAC_PCS_RTBI) { @@ -4303,6 +4301,8 @@ int stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *device, if (ret) goto error_hw_init; + stmmac_check_ether_addr(priv); + /* Configure real RX and TX queues */ netif_set_real_num_rx_queues(ndev, priv->plat->rx_queues_to_use); netif_set_real_num_tx_queues(ndev, priv->plat->tx_queues_to_use);