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From: Matthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:36:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net: bgmac-platform: handle mac-address deferral
Git-commit: 763716a55cb1f480ffe1a9702e6b5d9ea1a80a24
Patch-mainline: v5.15-rc4
References: stable-5.14.13

[ Upstream commit 763716a55cb1f480ffe1a9702e6b5d9ea1a80a24 ]

This patch is a replication of Christian Lamparter's "net: bgmac-bcma:
handle deferred probe error due to mac-address" patch for the
bgmac-platform driver [1].

As is the case with the bgmac-bcma driver, this change is to cover the
scenario where the MAC address cannot yet be discovered due to reliance
on an nvmem provider which is yet to be instantiated, resulting in a
random address being assigned that has to be manually overridden.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210919115725.29064-1-chunkeey@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Matthew Hagan <mnhagan88@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c
index 4ab5bf64d353..df8ff839cc62 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-platform.c
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	bgmac->dma_dev = &pdev->dev;
 
 	ret = of_get_mac_address(np, bgmac->net_dev->dev_addr);
+	if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+		return ret;
+
 	if (ret)
 		dev_warn(&pdev->dev,
 			 "MAC address not present in device tree\n");
-- 
2.26.2