[PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mt76: fix MAC address for non OF pcie cards

From: Rosen Penev

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 17:07:33 EST


If seems the check for err is wrong as the proper macaddr gets written
to from the EEPROM itself. Meaning checking err from of_get_mac_address is
wrong as the proper macaddr has been written by this point.

Fixes: 31ee1582717e ("wifi: mt76: fix of_get_mac_address error handling")
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
index b99d7452800f..afdb73661866 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/eeprom.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ mt76_eeprom_override(struct mt76_phy *phy)
if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
return err;

- if (err) {
+ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(phy->macaddr)) {
eth_random_addr(phy->macaddr);
dev_info(dev->dev,
"Invalid MAC address, using random address %pM\n",
--
2.55.0