[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2 V2] IOMUX: Add console multiplexing support.

[Gary Jennejohn <garyj@denx.de>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:57:32 +0200
Gary Jennejohn <garyj@denx.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:24:53 +0200
> Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > I have to admit that I don't like the idea of splitting the
> > GD_FLG_DEVINIT into several, unrelated parts of the code.
> >
> 
> I don't like it too much myself, but it seemed like the logical approach
> to me at the time I made this modification.
> 
> > Would it not make more sense to have the netconsole  part  wait  with
> > output  until it's been initialized? And/or move the netweork init to
> > an earlier point, when netconsole is enabled?
> >
> 
> Not a bad idea.  I think it would be most logical to do it in the
> netconsole code, rather than moving up the network initialization.
> 
> I'll take a look at that.
> 

I looked at this some more.  eth_initialize() is called in every
architecture-specific library which means changing 8 files to move
it up to before the initialization of netconsole.

netconsole is intialized in devices_init() which is called even before
console_init_r() and long before eth_initialize().

What's the opinion of the ML?  Is it worth all the repository churn to
move eth_initialize() up rather than changing just two files?

One alrernative which occurs to me would be to introduce a new flag
GD_FLG_ETHINIT, but this is even worse because it requires modifying
12 header files and 3 or more C files.

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Gary Jennejohn
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