[U-Boot-Users] What if eth_init() fails?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Upakul Barkakaty wrote:
> > Hi all, I observed that when the Ethernet initialization fails, it is
> > not properly halting the operation and exiting. On walking through the
> > Networking files, I saw that the eth_init() in eth.c either returns a 0
> > or 1. Now, in the NetLoop() in net.c file, from where the eth_init()
> > gets called, checks the condition if (eth_init(bd) < 0) { eth_halt();
> > return(-1); } which is thus never true. Thus the network operation,
> > never exits gracefully, if Ethernet init fails. Any of you, have any
> > clues about this??
>
> This is a known bug.  The problem is that it's been around for so long,
> people don't realize what's happening.  If you fix it, you might break
> something else.

so by fixing one bug, you may expose other bugs, and that's a bad thing ?  bad 
code has gotta go !
-mike
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