From: Gavin Schenk <g.sch...@eckelmann.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:46:10 +0200
> If the mac address origin is not dt, you can only safely assign a mac
> address after "link up" of the device. If the link is off the clocks are
> disabled and because of issues assigning registers when clocks are off the
> new mac address cannot be written in .ndo_set_mac_address() on some soc's.
> This fix sets the mac address unconditionally in fec_restart(...) and
> ensures consistency between fec registers and the network layer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Schenk <g.sch...@eckelmann.de>
> Acked-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.d...@nxp.com>
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de>
> Fixes: 9638d19e4816 ("net: fec: add netif status check before set mac
> address")
> ---
> Changes since (implicit) v1:
> - reword commit log as suggested by Uwe
> - added Acks
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
