This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: handle probe deferral to the 6.1-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-ethernet-mtk_eth_soc-handle-probe-deferral.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c3465911da1e9d1a7b64a1ed1f446f1ef9666ff2 Author: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 13 03:42:29 2023 +0100 net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: handle probe deferral [ Upstream commit 1d6d537dc55d1f42d16290f00157ac387985b95b ] Move the call to of_get_ethdev_address to mtk_add_mac which is part of the probe function and can hence itself return -EPROBE_DEFER should of_get_ethdev_address return -EPROBE_DEFER. This allows us to entirely get rid of the mtk_init function. The problem of of_get_ethdev_address returning -EPROBE_DEFER surfaced in situations in which the NVMEM provider holding the MAC address has not yet be loaded at the time mtk_eth_soc is initially probed. In this case probing of mtk_eth_soc should be deferred instead of falling back to use a random MAC address, so once the NVMEM provider becomes available probing can be repeated. Fixes: 656e705243fd ("net-next: mediatek: add support for MT7623 ethernet") Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c index 49975924e2426..7e318133423a9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c @@ -3425,23 +3425,6 @@ static int mtk_hw_deinit(struct mtk_eth *eth) return 0; } -static int __init mtk_init(struct net_device *dev) -{ - struct mtk_mac *mac = netdev_priv(dev); - struct mtk_eth *eth = mac->hw; - int ret; - - ret = of_get_ethdev_address(mac->of_node, dev); - if (ret) { - /* If the mac address is invalid, use random mac address */ - eth_hw_addr_random(dev); - dev_err(eth->dev, "generated random MAC address %pM\n", - dev->dev_addr); - } - - return 0; -} - static void mtk_uninit(struct net_device *dev) { struct mtk_mac *mac = netdev_priv(dev); @@ -3789,7 +3772,6 @@ static const struct ethtool_ops mtk_ethtool_ops = { }; static const struct net_device_ops mtk_netdev_ops = { - .ndo_init = mtk_init, .ndo_uninit = mtk_uninit, .ndo_open = mtk_open, .ndo_stop = mtk_stop, @@ -3845,6 +3827,17 @@ static int mtk_add_mac(struct mtk_eth *eth, struct device_node *np) mac->hw = eth; mac->of_node = np; + err = of_get_ethdev_address(mac->of_node, eth->netdev[id]); + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER) + return err; + + if (err) { + /* If the mac address is invalid, use random mac address */ + eth_hw_addr_random(eth->netdev[id]); + dev_err(eth->dev, "generated random MAC address %pM\n", + eth->netdev[id]->dev_addr); + } + memset(mac->hwlro_ip, 0, sizeof(mac->hwlro_ip)); mac->hwlro_ip_cnt = 0;