Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: set mac address unconditionally

From: Gavin Schenk 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

[PATCH v2] net: fec: set mac address unconditionally

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