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 <xiaofeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sneh Shah <snehshah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: As discussed in [1] we move the stmmac driver inherting the mac address from probe to open [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190222125654.12478-1-vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx/ drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c index 7a895a2889e3..5ab2733e15e2 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); -- 2.20.1
