Re: [PATCH v4] net: stmmac: fix 'ethtool -P' return -EBUSY

[Andrew Lunn]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 05:32:07PM +0800, Hao Chen wrote:
> The permanent mac address should be available for query when the device
> is not up.
> NetworkManager, the system network daemon, uses 'ethtool -P' to obtain
> the permanent address after the kernel start. When the network device
> is not up, it will return the device busy error with 'ethtool -P'. At
> that time, it is unable to access the Internet through the permanent
> address by NetworkManager.
> I think that the '.begin' is not used to check if the device is up.

You forgot to update the commit message.

    Andrew