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authorMatthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com>2021-11-06 13:50:27 +0000
committerAdrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>2021-11-07 00:05:26 +0100
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kernel: 5.10: compress 7xx patch numbering
The qca8k patch series brings the numbering to 799. This patch renames 7xx patches to create space for more backports to be added. Signed-off-by: Matthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com> [rename 729->719] Signed-off-by: Adrian Schmutzler <freifunk@adrianschmutzler.de>
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@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 763716a55cb1f480ffe1a9702e6b5d9ea1a80a24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Matthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:36:27 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] net: bgmac-platform: handle mac-address deferral
+
+This patch is a replication of Christian Lamparter's "net: bgmac-bcma:
+handle deferred probe error due to mac-address" patch for the
+bgmac-platform driver [1].
+
+As is the case with the bgmac-bcma driver, this change is to cover the
+scenario where the MAC address cannot yet be discovered due to reliance
+on an nvmem provider which is yet to be instantiated, resulting in a
+random address being assigned that has to be manually overridden.
+
+[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210919115725.29064-1-chunkeey@gmail.com
+
+Signed-off-by: Matthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com>
+Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
+Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+---
+ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c | 3 +++
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c
++++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c
+@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct platform_d
+ bgmac->dma_dev = &pdev->dev;
+
+ ret = of_get_mac_address(np, bgmac->net_dev->dev_addr);
++ if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
++ return ret;
++
+ if (ret)
+ dev_warn(&pdev->dev,
+ "MAC address not present in device tree\n");