[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: Add a command to access the EEPROM from ethernet devices

Alban Bedel
2014-10-13T08:56:12Z

On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:17:00 +0200
Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:

> 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 <alban.bedel@avionic-design.de>
>
> 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 ?

Currently this is all I need for the boards I'm working on. However I
have no problem with splitting the command from 'eth_eeprom' to
'eth eeprom' to leave room for other stuff.

Alban
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