[U-Boot] [PATCH] mgcoge make ether_scc.c work with CONFIG_NET_MULTI

[Gary Jennejohn <garyj@denx.de>]

Hi Ben,

Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >>     
> > [snip]
> >   
> >>>  #if defined(CONFIG_ETHER_ON_SCC) && defined(CONFIG_CMD_NET)
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> While you're mucking around with this file, please settle on a single 
> >> CONFIG that can allow conditional compilation from the Makefile, then 
> >> get rid of this stuff.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > You mean get rid of CONFIG_ETHER_ON_SCC and CONFIG_CMD_NET?  But isn't at
> > least CONFIG_CMD_NET required to get networking support in other parts of
> > U-Boot, which would make it a prerequisite for compiling this?
> >
> > And eliminating or supplementing CONFIG_ETHER_ON_SCC with a new CONFIG
> > would mean changing a whole slew of configuration files, not to mention
> > include/net.h.
> >
> >   
> I don't mean get rid of them completely, just move the conditionality to 
> the Makefile.  IMHO the CONFIG_ETHER_ON_SCC conditional is enough, you 
> don't need to check for CONFIG_CMD_NET.  It the user doesn' t have it 
> set, problems will show up all over the place, and very quickly.  I'd 
> prefer to change the name of CONFIG_ETHER_ON_SCC to something indicating 
> 82xx-ness, since this driver is specific to the 82xx family of SOCs, but 
> SCCs have been around longer than PowerPC.  One thing you'll notice is 
> that most of the config files that mention this option are #undef'ing it 
> only.
>

OK, I think I'll keep CONFIG_ETHER_ON_SCC because
a) there's less repo churn and less work for me :-)
b) it's also used in board/pm826/pm826.c and board/pm828/pm828.c to
   control setup of port pins and I hesitate to touch board-specific
   code.

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Gary Jennejohn
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