This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: dsa: read mac address from DT for slave device to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-dsa-read-mac-address-from-dt-for-slave-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a2c7023f7075ca9b80f944d3f20f60e6574538e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:04:58 +0530 Subject: net: dsa: read mac address from DT for slave device From: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a2c7023f7075ca9b80f944d3f20f60e6574538e2 upstream. Before creating a slave netdevice, get the mac address from DTS and apply in case it is valid. Signed-off-by: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/dsa.h | 1 + net/dsa/dsa2.c | 1 + net/dsa/slave.c | 5 ++++- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/net/dsa.h +++ b/include/net/dsa.h @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ struct dsa_port { unsigned int index; const char *name; const struct dsa_port *cpu_dp; + const char *mac; struct device_node *dn; unsigned int ageing_time; u8 stp_state; --- a/net/dsa/dsa2.c +++ b/net/dsa/dsa2.c @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ static int dsa_port_setup(struct dsa_por int err = 0; memset(&dp->devlink_port, 0, sizeof(dp->devlink_port)); + dp->mac = of_get_mac_address(dp->dn); if (dp->type != DSA_PORT_TYPE_UNUSED) err = devlink_port_register(ds->devlink, &dp->devlink_port, --- a/net/dsa/slave.c +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c @@ -1313,7 +1313,10 @@ int dsa_slave_create(struct dsa_port *po slave_dev->features = master->vlan_features | NETIF_F_HW_TC; slave_dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_TC; slave_dev->ethtool_ops = &dsa_slave_ethtool_ops; - eth_hw_addr_inherit(slave_dev, master); + if (port->mac && is_valid_ether_addr(port->mac)) + ether_addr_copy(slave_dev->dev_addr, port->mac); + else + eth_hw_addr_inherit(slave_dev, master); slave_dev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE; slave_dev->netdev_ops = &dsa_slave_netdev_ops; slave_dev->switchdev_ops = &dsa_slave_switchdev_ops; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiaofeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/net-dsa-read-mac-address-from-dt-for-slave-device.patch