[U-Boot] [PATCH 22/27] pcs440ep: get mac address from environment and move load_sernum_ethaddr() to board init

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 16 February 2009 17:57:22 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > The environment is the canonical storage location of the mac address, so
> > we're killing off the global data location and moving everything to
> > querying the env directly.
> >
> > Move all the work of load_sernum_ethaddr() into a local load_ethaddr()
> > func and call that from misc_init_r().  We leave load_sernum_ethaddr()
> > as a stub so that it can be removed from all places in a later commit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
> > CC: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> > CC: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
>
> ...
>
> > +void load_sernum_ethaddr (void)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
>
> See previous comments - please do not add dead code just to remove it
> later.

your previous comment doesnt apply to these later ones.  the first change is 
for arm-only.  the later changes are for ppc.  it isnt dead code because the 
function is still called by common ppc code.  just like i outlined in the 
summary for this patchset.
-mike
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