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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/sfc/efx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/sfc/efx.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c index 7e820d90e6b..f3e4043d70e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c @@ -909,6 +909,7 @@ static void efx_mac_work(struct work_struct *data) static int efx_probe_port(struct efx_nic *efx) { + unsigned char *perm_addr; int rc; netif_dbg(efx, probe, efx->net_dev, "create port\n"); @@ -922,11 +923,12 @@ static int efx_probe_port(struct efx_nic *efx) return rc; /* Sanity check MAC address */ - if (is_valid_ether_addr(efx->mac_address)) { - memcpy(efx->net_dev->dev_addr, efx->mac_address, ETH_ALEN); + perm_addr = efx->net_dev->perm_addr; + if (is_valid_ether_addr(perm_addr)) { + memcpy(efx->net_dev->dev_addr, perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); } else { netif_err(efx, probe, efx->net_dev, "invalid MAC address %pM\n", - efx->mac_address); + perm_addr); if (!allow_bad_hwaddr) { rc = -EINVAL; goto err; |