net: axienet: Make missing MAC address non-fatal

Failing initialization on a missing MAC address property is excessive.
We can just fall back to using a random MAC instead, which at least
leaves the interface in a functioning state.

Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancock@sedsystems.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
index 834fafd..6e75c43 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
@@ -1733,8 +1733,9 @@ static int axienet_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        /* Retrieve the MAC address */
        mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(pdev->dev.of_node);
        if (IS_ERR(mac_addr)) {
-               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not find MAC address\n");
-               goto free_netdev;
+               dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "could not find MAC address property: %ld\n",
+                        PTR_ERR(mac_addr));
+               mac_addr = NULL;
        }
        axienet_set_mac_address(ndev, mac_addr);