From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: Add a command to access the EEPROM from ethernet devices
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:17:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201410091717.00580.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412854970-14927-1-git-send-email-alban.bedel@avionic-design.de>
On Thursday, October 09, 2014 at 01:42:49 PM, Alban Bedel wrote:
> Many ethernet devices use an EEPROM to store various settings, most
> commonly the device MAC address. But on some devices it can contains
> a lot more, for example USB device might also have many USB related
> parameters.
>
> This commit add a set of commands to read/write this EEPROM, write a
> default configuration and read/write the device MAC address. The
> defaults command allow priming the EEPROM for devices that need more
> than just a MAC address in the EEPROM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel <alban.bedel@avionic-design.de>
I will not comment on the code yet, but would like to discuss the concept
instead. I wonder, can we not have a more generic command here? One which
can manage the ethernet device altogether, not just adjust it's eeprom?
Something like 'ethtool' in Linux ...
What do you think please ?
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-09 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-09 11:42 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: Add a command to access the EEPROM from ethernet devices Alban Bedel
2014-10-09 11:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] usb: eth: smsc95xx: Add EEPROM access support for LAN9514 Alban Bedel
2014-10-09 21:00 ` Pavel Machek
2014-10-09 15:17 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2014-10-13 8:56 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: Add a command to access the EEPROM from ethernet devices Alban Bedel
2014-10-14 6:26 ` Joe Hershberger
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