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

[Matthias Fuchs]

What about 'ethrotate' or 'ethshift' ? 

Matthias

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 23:14, Ben Warren wrote:
> Kim Phillips wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >   
> Getting better...
> 
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