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authorMike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>2018-03-29 07:29:49 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-03-30 10:40:18 -0400
commitaa076e3d220a7d2e71ef0f5213bdbbcc7e351b86 (patch)
treeaa8828a2e9f4807236056d98097c89e6c075a307
parent9217e566bdee4583d0a9ea4879c8f5e004886eac (diff)
net: macb: Try to retrieve MAC addess from nvmem provider
Call of_get_nvmem_mac_address() to fetch the MAC address from an nvmem cell, if one is provided in the device tree. This allows the address to be stored in an I2C EEPROM device for example. Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index d09bd43680b3..b4c9268100bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -3952,10 +3952,16 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
dev->max_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
mac = of_get_mac_address(np);
- if (mac)
+ if (mac) {
ether_addr_copy(bp->dev->dev_addr, mac);
- else
- macb_get_hwaddr(bp);
+ } else {
+ err = of_get_nvmem_mac_address(np, bp->dev->dev_addr);
+ if (err) {
+ if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ goto err_out_free_netdev;
+ macb_get_hwaddr(bp);
+ }
+ }
err = of_get_phy_mode(np);
if (err < 0) {