[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] net: add 'ethtoggle' environment variable

[Kim Phillips]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:58:21 +0100
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> In message <47850837.6020608 at 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