[U-Boot] [PATCH] net, fec_mxc: use mac address stored in env before looking in eeprom

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201003251338.18817.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > The question to me is why fec_probe() is called at all, even in cases
> > where U-Boot does not use any network related commands. This is IMO
> > wrong. Eventually somebody comes up with patches to fix this?
> 
> the current fec_mxc driver has squashed the initialize and probe steps.  it
> should have half the things removed from probe and put into initialize and 
> then the call to probe moved to the init step.

OK - but why should we always probe?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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