[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/27 v2] Blackfin: bfin_mac: force board_get_enetaddr() usage

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <200901291135.32632.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> the driver isnt really generic.  it's specific to the hardware that exists 
> inside of Blackfin chips.  the hardware has no support at all for storing the 

Well, the same applies for many other Ethernet drivers as well, be it
the FEC ethernet driver for the MPC8xx, the FCC for the MPC82xx or the
TSEC for the 8xxx, etc.

> what you propose wouldnt have been possible before, but with Ben's work it 
> should be easy to move to board_eth_init().

So lat's do this, then, please.

> as for generic code, i'd point out that lib_ppc/board.c is a much worse 
> offender in this regard ...

I take this as an indication that we can learn from errors made in
the past, instead of repeating them.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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