At the time of MAC address assignment the netdev is not registered yet,
so netdev log functions won't work as expected. While we are at this
downgrade the log level to a warning, because a random MAC address is
not a real error.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/vertexcom/mse102x.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/vertexcom/mse102x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/vertexcom/mse102x.c
index 336435fe8241..4ce027f8e376 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/vertexcom/mse102x.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/vertexcom/mse102x.c
@@ -485,8 +485,8 @@ static void mse102x_init_mac(struct mse102x_net *mse, struct device_node *np)

 	if (ret) {
 		eth_hw_addr_random(ndev);
-		netdev_err(ndev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n",
-			   ndev->dev_addr);
+		dev_warn(ndev->dev.parent, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n",
+			 ndev->dev_addr);
 	}
 }

--
2.34.1

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 09:09:58PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> At the time of MAC address assignment the netdev is not registered yet,
> so netdev log functions won't work as expected. While we are at this
> downgrade the log level to a warning, because a random MAC address is
> not a real error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>