[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] cmd_mac: fix help for 'mac read'

Michael Jones michael.jones at matrix-vision.de
Wed Jul 27 16:05:17 CEST 2011


Hi Detlev,

Thanks for the reply.

On 07/27/2011 03:54 PM, Detlev Zundel wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
>> Hi Detlev,
>>
>> On 07/15/2011 05:17 PM, Detlev Zundel wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael Jones <michael.jones at matrix-vision.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> In the only implementation of 'mac read', it doesn't display the
>>>> contents of the eeprom as the help indicated unless compiled with
>>>> DEBUG. It only re-reads the contents of the EEPROM into memory.
>>>> Displaying the contents of the EEPROM is done by passing no
>>>> arguments to 'mac'.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Jones <michael.jones at matrix-vision.de>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the ack. Do you know when I can expect these to get merged in?
> 
> As we currently lack a network maintainer, these patches fall into the
> "and all the rest category" picked up sequentially by Wolfgang.  I
> expect that to happen Real Soon (tm) now.

That's exactly what I wanted to know- it seemed there wasn't a custodian
whom I needed to cc:, and I didn't know who would end up merging them.

> 
> On the other hand, please do not forget that we _intentionally_ allow
> for some time to pass before the patches are merged in order to allow
> for review on the mailing list and to prevent potentially
> merge/revert/change/merge cycles.

Sure, and that makes sense. I just wanted to get a feel for what kind of
time scale that was in general. Obviously these are not important patches.

> 
> Cheers
>   Detlev
> 

thanks,
Michael

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