[U-Boot-Users] What if eth_init() fails?

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Upakul,

> Hi all, I observed that when the Ethernet initialization fails, it is not
> properly halting the operation and exiting. On walking through the Networking
> files, I saw that the eth_init() in eth.c either returns a 0 or 1. Now, in the
> NetLoop() in net.c file, from where the eth_init() gets called, checks the
> condition if (eth_init(bd) < 0) { eth_halt(); return(-1); } which is thus never
> true. Thus the network operation, never exits gracefully, if Ethernet init
> fails. Any of you, have any clues about this??

I think your analysis is right and thus the code in NetLoop should be
fixed.  Feel free to send a patch and I am pretty sure Ben Warren will
pick it up into the u-boot-net repo.

Cheers
  Detlev

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