From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:17:00 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: Add a command to access the EEPROM from ethernet devices In-Reply-To: <1412854970-14927-1-git-send-email-alban.bedel@avionic-design.de> References: <1412854970-14927-1-git-send-email-alban.bedel@avionic-design.de> Message-ID: <201410091717.00580.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thursday, October 09, 2014 at 01:42:49 PM, Alban Bedel wrote: > Many ethernet devices use an EEPROM to store various settings, most > commonly the device MAC address. But on some devices it can contains > a lot more, for example USB device might also have many USB related > parameters. > > This commit add a set of commands to read/write this EEPROM, write a > default configuration and read/write the device MAC address. The > defaults command allow priming the EEPROM for devices that need more > than just a MAC address in the EEPROM. > > Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel I will not comment on the code yet, but would like to discuss the concept instead. I wonder, can we not have a more generic command here? One which can manage the ethernet device altogether, not just adjust it's eeprom? Something like 'ethtool' in Linux ... What do you think please ? Best regards, Marek Vasut