[PATCH] net: ftgmac100: support getting MAC address from NVMEM

[Paul Fertser]

Hello Pavan,

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 10:14:02AM +0530, Pavan Chebbi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 3:28 PM Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Make use of of_get_ethdev_address() to support reading MAC address not
> > only from the usual DT nodes but also from an NVMEM provider (e.g. using
> > a dedicated area in an FRU EEPROM).
> 
> Looks like earlier ftgmac100_probe() would move on with self generated
> (random) MAC addr if getting it from the device failed.
> Now you will fail the probe in a failure case. Is that OK?

I think the previous behaviour is preserved with this patch in all the
cases other than of_get_ethdev_address returning -EPROBE_DEFER. Can
you please explain what failure case you have in mind and how the
probe is going to be failed in that case?

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