Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:43:14 +0100 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] net: mv643xx_eth: process retval from of_get_mac_address |
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 08:57:54AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > 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@ext.kapsi.fi> > > Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> > > While we wait for Andrew's ack, is this the correct fixes tag? > > Fixes: 76723bca2802 ("net: mv643xx_eth: add DT parsing support")
Yes, that looks correct. The history around here is convoluted, and anybody trying to backport that far is going to need a few different versions.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Andrew
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