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From: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] net, kirkwood_egiga: init mac address before using network commands
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:43:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330094312.540eefbf@marrow.netinsight.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB18E5F.6060705@denx.de>

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:38:39 +0200
Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> wrote:

> initialize mac address with the value from "ethaddr", before
> doing some network commands. This is not in line with u-boot
> design principle "not to initalize not used devices", and
> maybe should go away, if there is a solution for passing
> the mac address to arm linux kernels.

I also tried this change half a year ago, but it got NACK:ed. The
discussion is here if you are interested:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg16994.html

// Simon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30  5:38 [U-Boot] net, kirkwood_egiga: init mac address before using network commands Heiko Schocher
2010-03-30  7:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-03-30  7:43 ` Simon Kagstrom [this message]
2010-03-30  7:52 ` Detlev Zundel
2010-03-30  8:01   ` Simon Kagstrom
2010-03-30  8:26     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-03-30  9:01       ` Simon Kagstrom
2010-03-30  9:42         ` Detlev Zundel
2010-03-30  8:01 ` Wolfgang Denk

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