From: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/7] mx25: Define cpu_eth_init() only if needed
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:09:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5065693C.3030608@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <678974406.5374837.1348782192487.JavaMail.root@advansee.com>
On 27/09/2012 23:43, Beno?t Th?baudeau wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
>
> On Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:55:22 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>> Hi Beno?t,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Beno?t Th?baudeau
>> <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> wrote:
>>> The FEC is the only SoC Ethernet support available on i.MX25, so
>>> define
>>> cpu_eth_init() only for it instead of returning a misleading
>>> success code.
>>
>> Yes, but someone may want to use mx25 with a external LAN device
>> (such
>> as LAN92xx) instead of FEC.
>
> Yes, but in that case I think that there should be a board_eth_init() function
> defined, so this patch won't cause any trouble here. See in
> net/eth.c:eth_initialize() how these functions and their default implementations
> are handled.
I think also that in this case a board_eth_init() must be used - the
#ifdef in cpu_eth_init() is then superflous.
Best regards,
Stefano
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-27 20:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/7] mx25: Fix decode_pll Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-27 20:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/7] mx25: Clean up clock calculations Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-27 20:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/7] mx25: Define more standard clocks Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-27 20:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/7] mx25 clocks: Fix MXC_FEC_CLK Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-28 10:33 ` Stefano Babic
2012-09-27 20:27 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] mx25: Clean up clocks API Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-28 10:31 ` Stefano Babic
2012-09-27 20:28 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/7] mx25: Define cpu_eth_init() only if needed Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-27 20:55 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-09-27 21:43 ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-28 9:09 ` Stefano Babic [this message]
2012-09-27 20:28 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/7] mx25: Fix eSDHC support Benoît Thébaudeau
2012-09-30 10:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/7] mx25: Fix decode_pll Stefano Babic
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