From: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a19a0582363b9a5f8ba812f34f1b8df394898780 ] When a valid MAC address is not found the current messages are shown: fec 2188000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Invalid MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 fec 2188000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Using random MAC address: aa:9f:25:eb:7e:aa Since the network device has not been registered at this point, it is better to use dev_err()/dev_info() instead, which will provide cleaner log messages like these: fec 2188000.ethernet: Invalid MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 fec 2188000.ethernet: Using random MAC address: aa:9f:25:eb:7e:aa Tested on a imx6dl-pico-pi board. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c index 878ccce1dfcd..87a9c5716958 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c @@ -1689,10 +1689,10 @@ static void fec_get_mac(struct net_device *ndev) */ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(iap)) { /* Report it and use a random ethernet address instead */ - netdev_err(ndev, "Invalid MAC address: %pM\n", iap); + dev_err(&fep->pdev->dev, "Invalid MAC address: %pM\n", iap); eth_hw_addr_random(ndev); - netdev_info(ndev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n", - ndev->dev_addr); + dev_info(&fep->pdev->dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n", + ndev->dev_addr); return; } -- 2.20.1