[U-Boot] [PATCH] mvgbe: fix network device indices

[Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>]

Am Freitag 21 Oktober 2011, 10:09:15 schrieben Sie:
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> > On Behalf Of Michael Walle
> > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 3:53 AM
> > To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> > Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mvgbe: fix network device indices
> > 
> > Don't assume that the MAC address of egiga0 rsp. egiga1 is ethaddr rsp.
> > eth1addr. If there is only a egiga1 device, u-boot will enumerate it as
> > device 0 and therefore the MAC address is set with the environment
> > varibale
> > ethaddr.
> 
> Hi
> 
> If I understood it correctly,
> In current implementation, if only egiga1 device is enabled on the board,
> then it will assign MAC address associated with environment variable
> "ethaddr".
yes but the current mvgbe driver will check eth1addr and set it to a random 
value if not set.

> This patch will make environment variable "egiga1" available in such case.
> Right?
mh? This patch will use the same enumeration as the net/eth.c code in 
eth_initialize(). At least if there is no other ethernet driver than mvgbe.
So ethaddr is set to a random value instead of eth1addr, which 
eth_initialize() then use the set the mac address.

> If so, then this is not the case with only mvgbe, it is applicable for all
> network drivers.
yeah other drivers also set eth(N)addr sometimes, which suffers from the same 
problem. maybe a driver could provide some callback to initialize a macaddress 
or eth_register returns the device index which in turn could be used to get 
the proper ethNaddr environment variable.

-- 
Michael