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-rw-r--r--include/linux/etherdevice.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/property.h1
-rw-r--r--net/ethernet/eth.c20
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index bb612c7382e3..a8bb64cf4079 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ int eth_platform_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, u8 *mac_addr);
unsigned char *arch_get_platform_mac_address(void);
int nvmem_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, void *addrbuf);
int device_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, char *addr);
+int device_get_ethdev_address(struct device *dev, struct net_device *netdev);
int fwnode_get_mac_address(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode, char *addr);
u32 eth_get_headlen(const struct net_device *dev, const void *data, u32 len);
diff --git a/include/linux/property.h b/include/linux/property.h
index 4fb081684255..88fa726a76df 100644
--- a/include/linux/property.h
+++ b/include/linux/property.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
struct device;
+struct net_device;
enum dev_prop_type {
DEV_PROP_U8,
diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
index 29447a61d3ec..d7b8fa10fabb 100644
--- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
@@ -617,3 +617,23 @@ int device_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, char *addr)
return fwnode_get_mac_address(dev_fwnode(dev), addr);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(device_get_mac_address);
+
+/**
+ * device_get_ethdev_address - Set netdev's MAC address from a given device
+ * @dev: Pointer to the device
+ * @netdev: Pointer to netdev to write the address to
+ *
+ * Wrapper around device_get_mac_address() which writes the address
+ * directly to netdev->dev_addr.
+ */
+int device_get_ethdev_address(struct device *dev, struct net_device *netdev)
+{
+ u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = device_get_mac_address(dev, addr);
+ if (!ret)
+ eth_hw_addr_set(netdev, addr);
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(device_get_ethdev_address);