[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] net/eth_device: keep index inside each device

Wolfgang Denk
2009-08-12T21:35:13Z

Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,

In message <20090812210339.GE21725@game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
>
> > What exactly is the problem you are addressing with this patch?
> >
> > Please provide a commit message that explains what is going on, and
> > what is being changed or fixed.
> simple it impossible to known what will be your device index in the driver
> specially when you have 2 or more drivers instance once or more

Sorry, but we don't have driver instances in U-Boot. Even if you have
several Ethernet interfaces of the same type, there will be only a
single device driver instance.

> so you can not update the mac addres in the env if you want to do it
> as we do on smc91111 as we can not known eth%daddr you are
> which allow us the avoid to read the eeprom every time we want to use the eth

At any time, there is (at most) a single active interface.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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