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net: fec: Do not use netdev messages too early
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When a valid MAC address is not found the current messages
are shown:

fec 2188000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Invalid MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
fec 2188000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Using random MAC address: aa:9f:25:eb:7e:aa

Since the network device has not been registered at this point, it is better
to use dev_err()/dev_info() instead, which will provide cleaner log
messages like these:

fec 2188000.ethernet: Invalid MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
fec 2188000.ethernet: Using random MAC address: aa:9f:25:eb:7e:aa

Tested on a imx6dl-pico-pi board.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fabio Estevam authored and David S. Miller committed Jun 6, 2019
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
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Expand Up @@ -1689,10 +1689,10 @@ static void fec_get_mac(struct net_device *ndev)
*/
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(iap)) {
/* Report it and use a random ethernet address instead */
netdev_err(ndev, "Invalid MAC address: %pM\n", iap);
dev_err(&fep->pdev->dev, "Invalid MAC address: %pM\n", iap);
eth_hw_addr_random(ndev);
netdev_info(ndev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n",
ndev->dev_addr);
dev_info(&fep->pdev->dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n",
ndev->dev_addr);
return;
}

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