[PATCH] net: eth-uclass: Improve error message when MAC is not found

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 23:57:20 CEST 2023


From: Fabio Estevam <festevam at denx.de>

While bringinp up a new board without the MAC fuses programmed,
the following error message was observed:

Error: ethernet at 30bf0000 address not set.

Improve the error message to make it clearer the reason of
the failure.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at denx.de>
---
 net/eth-uclass.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/eth-uclass.c b/net/eth-uclass.c
index 4311f3fe6e89..1f0985ec52ca 100644
--- a/net/eth-uclass.c
+++ b/net/eth-uclass.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static int eth_post_probe(struct udevice *dev)
 		eth_env_set_enetaddr_by_index("eth", dev_seq(dev),
 					      pdata->enetaddr);
 #else
-		printf("\nError: %s address not set.\n",
+		printf("\nError: %s a valid MAC address was not found.\n",
 		       dev->name);
 		return -EINVAL;
 #endif
-- 
2.34.1



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