[U-Boot] [PATCH] add support for EMK TOP7000 CPU module

[Ben Warren]

Hello Reinhard,

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Reinhard Meyer (-VC) <
reinhard.meyer at emk-elektronik.de> wrote:

> Wolfgang Denk schrieb:
> > Dear "Reinhard Meyer (-VC)",
> >
> > In message <4C0B85D8.4070508 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
> >> is this patch going to be accepted, or is someone insisting that only
> >> my port shall return the number of controllers initialized?
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean by "only my port". Ben's comment that
> > board_eth_init() is supposed to retrurn the number of  successfully
> > initialized controllers has been standard policy for a pretty long
> > time, and many boards do so.
> >
> > Eventually the boards you compared against are older ones, and have
> > not been maintained well, so they misbehave in this regard?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Wolfgang Denk
> >
>
> Hello Wolfgang,
>
> Is that documented somewhere? I see that the calling function in net.c
> does NOT care about any positive interger result. Will it care sometime
> in the future? :)
>
> Yes, it's documented (doc/README.drivers.eth).  Maybe it will get used in
the future.  That's why I politely asked to to make a simple change. It
wasn't an arbitrary request, and most boards (maybe not most MACB-using
ones) do it properly.

regards,
Ben