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+From 029497e66bdc762e001880e4c85a91f35a54b1e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:57:25 +0200
+Subject: net: bgmac-bcma: handle deferred probe error due to mac-address
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+Due to the inclusion of nvmem handling into the mac-address getter
+function of_get_mac_address() by
+commit d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
+it is now possible to get a -EPROBE_DEFER return code. Which did cause
+bgmac to assign a random ethernet address.
+
+This exact issue happened on my Meraki MR32. The nvmem provider is
+an EEPROM (at24c64) which gets instantiated once the module
+driver is loaded... This happens once the filesystem becomes available.
+
+With this patch, bgmac_probe() will propagate the -EPROBE_DEFER error.
+Then the driver subsystem will reschedule the probe at a later time.
+
+Cc: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
+Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
+Fixes: d01f449c008a ("of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address")
+Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+---
+ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c
+index 85fa0ab7201c7..9513cfb5ba58c 100644
+--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c
++++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c
+@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct bcma_device *core)
+ bcma_set_drvdata(core, bgmac);
+
+ err = of_get_mac_address(bgmac->dev->of_node, bgmac->net_dev->dev_addr);
++ if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
++ return err;
+
+ /* If no MAC address assigned via device tree, check SPROM */
+ if (err) {
+--
+cgit 1.2.3-1.el7
+