net: stmmac: move stmmac_check_ether_addr() to driver probe
authorVinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 09:45:32 +0000 (15:15 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 16 May 2019 07:17:14 +0000 (09:17 +0200)
commita0118894ef08a84a3bae73639878c610bec80330
tree28721bd0a67044c56476f029bfb5026a44d37794
parent5466bd95f6e335ec3577db222d70ec0d019deadd
net: stmmac: move stmmac_check_ether_addr() to driver probe

[ Upstream commit b561af36b1841088552464cdc3f6371d92f17710 ]

stmmac_check_ether_addr() checks the MAC address and assigns one in
driver open(). In many cases when we create slave netdevice, the dev
addr is inherited from master but the master dev addr maybe NULL at
that time, so move this call to driver probe so that address is
always valid.

Signed-off-by: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Xiaofei Shen <xiaofeis@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Sneh Shah <snehshah@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c