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net: bgmac-bcma: handle deferred probe error due to mac-address
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Due to the inclusion of nvmem handling into the mac-address getter
function of_get_mac_address() by
commit d01f449 ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
it is now possible to get a -EPROBE_DEFER return code. Which did cause
bgmac to assign a random ethernet address.

This exact issue happened on my Meraki MR32. The nvmem provider is
an EEPROM (at24c64) which gets instantiated once the module
driver is loaded... This happens once the filesystem becomes available.

With this patch, bgmac_probe() will propagate the -EPROBE_DEFER error.
Then the driver subsystem will reschedule the probe at a later time.

Cc: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Fixes: d01f449 ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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chunkeey authored and gregkh committed Sep 30, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct bcma_device *core)
bcma_set_drvdata(core, bgmac);

err = of_get_mac_address(bgmac->dev->of_node, bgmac->net_dev->dev_addr);
if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
return err;

/* If no MAC address assigned via device tree, check SPROM */
if (err) {
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