From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Fuchs Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:09:19 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] net: add 'ethtoggle' environment variable In-Reply-To: <47854759.7020803@gmail.com> References: <47850837.6020608@gmail.com> <20080109161100.e99b83a0.kim.phillips@freescale.com> <47854759.7020803@gmail.com> Message-ID: <200801100009.20076.matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de What about 'ethrotate' or 'ethshift' ? Matthias On Wednesday 09 January 2008 23:14, Ben Warren wrote: > Kim Phillips wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:58:21 +0100 > > Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > > > > >> In message <47850837.6020608@gmail.com> you wrote: > >> > >>> Matthias Fuchs wrote: > >>> > >>>> This patch replaces the buildtime configuration option > >>>> CONFIG_NET_DO_NOT_TRY_ANOTHER through the 'ethtoggle' runtime > >>>> configuration veriable. See README. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Good idea, but surely you can come up with a better word than > >>> 'ethtoggle'... It sounds like something Elmo would show to Big Bird and > >>> doesn't have anything to do with automatically advancing devices. Of > >>> course, I don't have any useful suggestions, but will think about it. > >>> > >> We discussed this on IRC this afternoon. The name was agreed between > >> Matthias Fuchs, Stefan Roese, Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard, and > >> me... > >> > >> > > toggle to me implies a binary sense, e.g. toggling a switch on/off, > > whereas this code doesn't turn eth on/off, it enables/disables the > > round-robin polling of eth devices. 'ethpoll' isn't quite precise > > enough either; what about 'ethcycle' ? > > > > Kim > > > > > Getting better... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot-Users mailing list > U-Boot-Users at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users >