From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:15:32 +0530 > 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/ Applied and queued up for -stable.
