Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: bgmac-platform: handle mac-address deferral

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Sat Sep 25 2021 - 12:48:56 EST


On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:36:27AM +0000, Matthew Hagan wrote:
> This patch is a replication of Christian Lamparter's "net: bgmac-bcma:
> handle deferred probe error due to mac-address" patch for the
> bgmac-platform driver [1].
>
> As is the case with the bgmac-bcma driver, this change is to cover the
> scenario where the MAC address cannot yet be discovered due to reliance
> on an nvmem provider which is yet to be instantiated, resulting in a
> random address being assigned that has to be manually overridden.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210919115725.29064-1-chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Hagan <mnhagan88@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew