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| author |   Robert Hancock <hancock@sedsystems.ca> | 2019-06-06 16:28:18 -0600 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-06-06 16:24:29 -0700 |
| commit | d05a9ed5c3a7739b7ece9ea81617c6fc74de10f0 (patch) | |
| tree | a79efe317a144734dad790db65bed6b613ce1296 /drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | |
| parent | net: axienet: Fix race condition causing TX hang (diff) | |
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net: axienet: Make missing MAC address non-fatal
Failing initialization on a missing MAC address property is excessive.
We can just fall back to using a random MAC instead, which at least
leaves the interface in a functioning state.
Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancock@sedsystems.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c index 834fafdff219..6e75c4320f80 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c @@ -1733,8 +1733,9 @@ static int axienet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) /* Retrieve the MAC address */ mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(pdev->dev.of_node); if (IS_ERR(mac_addr)) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not find MAC address\n"); - goto free_netdev; + dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "could not find MAC address property: %ld\n", + PTR_ERR(mac_addr)); + mac_addr = NULL; } axienet_set_mac_address(ndev, mac_addr); |