From: Quentin Freimanis <quentin@q-lab.dev>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@microchip.com>,
Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@microchip.com>,
UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com,
Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@microchip.com>,
Bjarni Jonasson <bjarni.jonasson@microchip.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net: sparx5: make ports inherit the switch base mac address type
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:50:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928045012.30178-1-quentin@q-lab.dev> (raw)
When the switch uses a random base MAC address it does not mark each
port's address as random:
$ dmesg | grep "MAC addr"
sparx5-switch e00c0000.switch: MAC addr was not set, use random MAC
$ cat /sys/class/net/eth0/addr_assign_type
0
0 is NET_ADDR_PERM, so userspace thinks this is a stable address. Fix by
tracking the base MAC address assign type in the sparx5 struct and
applying it to each port's netdev.
Fixes: f3cad2611a77 ("net: sparx5: add hostmode with phylink support")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Freimanis <quentin@q-lab.dev>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.h | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_netdev.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c
index dad713e9ddd5..b530fb6d3d0c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.c
@@ -898,6 +898,7 @@ static int mchp_sparx5_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
dev_info(sparx5->dev, "MAC addr was not set, use random MAC\n");
eth_random_addr(sparx5->base_mac);
sparx5->base_mac[5] = 0;
+ sparx5->base_mac_assign_type = NET_ADDR_RANDOM;
}
sparx5->fdma_irq = platform_get_irq_byname(sparx5->pdev, "fdma");
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.h
index eb57b86fbe22..0f7d8440f614 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_main.h
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ struct sparx5 {
struct notifier_block switchdev_blocking_nb;
/* Switch state */
u8 base_mac[ETH_ALEN];
+ u8 base_mac_assign_type;
/* Associated bridge device (when bridged) */
struct net_device *hw_bridge_dev;
/* Bridged interfaces */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_netdev.c
index 4dedf5d92641..b3725cf2dd44 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_netdev.c
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ struct net_device *sparx5_create_netdev(struct sparx5 *sparx5, u32 portno)
ndev->ethtool_ops = &sparx5_ethtool_ops;
eth_hw_addr_gen(ndev, sparx5->base_mac, portno + 1);
+ ndev->addr_assign_type = sparx5->base_mac_assign_type;
return ndev;
}
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-28 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 4:50 Quentin Freimanis [this message]
2026-09-28 10:11 ` Simon Horman
2026-09-28 11:20 ` Daniel Machon
2026-09-30 1:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-09-30 8:00 ` Quentin Freimanis
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