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From: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] add dm9000 eeprom read/write command
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:21:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E53B753.2030702@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108230942.44871.vapier@gentoo.org>

On 08/23/2011 03:42 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 01:15:25 Eric Jarrige wrote:
>> On 22 ao?t 2011, at 23:55, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Monday, August 22, 2011 17:37:42 Eric Jarrige wrote:
>>>> +#if (!defined(CONFIG_DM9000_NO_SROM) && defined(CONFIG_DRIVER_DM9000))
>>>
>>> why is this necessary ?
>>
>> the methods dm9000_read_srom_word()/dm9000_write_srom_word() need these
>> conditions to be compiled in dm9000x.c Therefore this avoid dead code
>> and/or compilation failure if these conditions are not met.
> 
> my point is that it is user error to select CONFIG_CMD_DM9000EE but not select 
> the DM9000 settings.  in your case, the user silently gets a build that makes 
> no sense.  in my case, they're forced to fix things.

Agree. This is also my point to move this code inside the driver itself,
where CONFIG_DRIVER_DM9000 is set (or it is not compiled).

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 21:37 [U-Boot] [PATCH] add dm9000 eeprom read/write command Eric Jarrige
2011-08-22 21:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-08-23  5:15   ` Eric Jarrige
2011-08-23 13:42     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-08-23 14:21       ` Stefano Babic [this message]
2011-08-24  5:36         ` Eric Jarrige
2011-08-23  9:34 ` Stefano Babic
2011-10-06 21:49 ` Wolfgang Denk

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