When using a mac address described in the device tree, a check is made to see if it is valid. When it's not, no fallback is defined. This patches tries to get the mac address from h/w (or use a random one if the h/w one isn't valid) when the dt mac address isn't valid.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.ten...@free-electrons.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c index c6003508f166..dd0ee2691c86 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c @@ -7477,19 +7477,20 @@ static void mvpp2_port_copy_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, struct mvpp2 *priv, if (dt_mac_addr && is_valid_ether_addr(dt_mac_addr)) { *mac_from = "device tree"; ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, dt_mac_addr); - } else { - if (priv->hw_version == MVPP21) { - mvpp21_get_mac_address(port, hw_mac_addr); - if (is_valid_ether_addr(hw_mac_addr)) { - *mac_from = "hardware"; - ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, hw_mac_addr); - return; - } - } + return; + } - *mac_from = "random"; - eth_hw_addr_random(dev); + if (priv->hw_version == MVPP21) { + mvpp21_get_mac_address(port, hw_mac_addr); + if (is_valid_ether_addr(hw_mac_addr)) { + *mac_from = "hardware"; + ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, hw_mac_addr); + return; + } } + + *mac_from = "random"; + eth_hw_addr_random(dev); } /* Ports initialization */ -- 2.13.5