Re: [PATCH v2] net: mv643xx_eth: process retval from of_get_mac_address
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Feb 24 2022 - 11:58:04 EST
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:23:37 +0200 Mauri Sandberg wrote:
> Obtaining a MAC address may be deferred in cases when the MAC is stored
> in an NVMEM block, for example, and it may not be ready upon the first
> retrieval attempt and return EPROBE_DEFER.
>
> It is also possible that a port that does not rely on NVMEM has been
> already created when getting the defer request. Thus, also the resources
> allocated previously must be freed when doing a roll-back.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauri Sandberg <maukka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
While we wait for Andrew's ack, is this the correct fixes tag?
Fixes: 76723bca2802 ("net: mv643xx_eth: add DT parsing support")