[U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: rework fdt_fixup_ethernet() to use env instead of bd_t

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Aug 18 21:16:34 CEST 2008


On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> Dear Kumar Gala,
>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808181344310.9116 at blarg.am.freescale.net>  
> you wrote:
>> Move to using the environment variables 'ethaddr', 'eth1addr', etc..
>> instead of bd->bi_enetaddr, bi_enet1addr, etc.
>>
>> This makes the code a bit more flexible to the number of ethernet
>> interfaces.  Right now we assume a max of 10 interfaces.
>
> How does this match with our very static way of selecting this using
> 'CONFIG_HAS_ETH<n>' #defines?  There is no such thing as
> CONFIG_HAS_ETH8 anywhere in the code...

oops, forgot about that.  I think we just have the code exist always  
(for CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT)

- k



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