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net: ethernet: ax88796: support generating a random mac address
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Instead of falling back to 00:00:00:00:00:00 generate a random address
if none is provided via platform data or from the device's register
space.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Uwe Kleine-König authored and David S. Miller committed May 26, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -723,6 +723,12 @@ static int ax_init_dev(struct net_device *dev)
ax->plat->mac_addr)
memcpy(dev->dev_addr, ax->plat->mac_addr, ETH_ALEN);

if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) {
eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
dev_info(&dev->dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n",
dev->dev_addr);
}

ax_reset_8390(dev);

ei_local->name = "AX88796";
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