On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 03:15:32PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> 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>
Thanks for doing it this way.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew
