From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:14:49 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] net: add 'ethtoggle' environment variable
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Kim Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:58:21 +0100
> Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> In message <47850837.6020608@gmail.com> you wrote:
>>     
>>> Matthias Fuchs wrote:
>>>       
>>>> This patch replaces the buildtime configuration option
>>>> CONFIG_NET_DO_NOT_TRY_ANOTHER through the 'ethtoggle' runtime
>>>> configuration veriable. See README.
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Good idea, but surely you can come up with a better word than 
>>> 'ethtoggle'... It sounds like something Elmo would show to Big Bird and 
>>> doesn't have anything to do with automatically advancing devices. Of 
>>> course, I don't have any useful suggestions, but will think about it.
>>>       
>> We discussed this on IRC this afternoon. The name was agreed between
>> Matthias Fuchs, Stefan Roese, Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard, and
>> me...
>>
>>     
> toggle to me implies a binary sense, e.g. toggling a switch on/off,
> whereas this code doesn't turn eth on/off, it enables/disables the
> round-robin polling of eth devices.  'ethpoll' isn't quite precise
> enough either; what about 'ethcycle' ?
>
> Kim
>
>   
Getting better...