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, 2 May 2019 07:59:00 +0000 (09:59 +0200)
commitb02f8aa856040a2d049e07d31a5c606a6f077731
treed774b9036280f3ecd8a3df61a6f4592439ae9523
parentd7b10dfe6c31339849558a6cbaa5477eab03da02
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