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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
index 30033dbe6662..c369db99c005 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/crc32.h>
 #include <linux/usb/usbnet.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/of_net.h>
 #include "smsc75xx.h"
 
 #define SMSC_CHIPNAME			"smsc75xx"
@@ -761,6 +762,15 @@ static int smsc75xx_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
 
 static void smsc75xx_init_mac_address(struct usbnet *dev)
 {
+	const u8 *mac_addr;
+
+	/* maybe the boot loader passed the MAC address in devicetree */
+	mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(dev->udev->dev.of_node);
+	if (mac_addr) {
+		memcpy(dev->net->dev_addr, mac_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* try reading mac address from EEPROM */
 	if (smsc75xx_read_eeprom(dev, EEPROM_MAC_OFFSET, ETH_ALEN,
 			dev->net->dev_addr) == 0) {
@@ -772,7 +782,7 @@ static void smsc75xx_init_mac_address(struct usbnet *dev)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* no eeprom, or eeprom values are invalid. generate random MAC */
+	/* no useful static MAC address found. generate a random one */
 	eth_hw_addr_random(dev->net);
 	netif_dbg(dev, ifup, dev->net, "MAC address set to eth_random_addr\n");
 }