[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 1/2][NEXT] davinci_emac: davinci_eth_set_mac_addr to ->write_hwaddr

[Ben Warren]

  Hi Ben,

On 9/23/2010 6:58 AM, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> This patch proposes to migrate the davinci_emac driver to using the
> eth_device->write_hwaddr function pointer as suggested by Ben Warren.
>
> All the davinci boards had the behaviour, prior to this patch, of
> sync'ing the environment variable enetaddr with the MAC address read
> from non-volatile storage on boot -- when the two locations disagreed,
> the environment variable value took precendence. This patch keeps the
> same behaviour but lets eth_initialize take care of it.
>
> This patch refactors davinci_emac setup in the boards so that the MAC
> address is read from non-volatile storage into the environment variable
> and then the environment variable value is use in eth_intialize. The
> only exception is the direct call to davinci_eth_set_mac_addr made by
> the da830evm board init which was changed into an assignment of the
> enetaddr field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner<bengardiner at nanometrics.ca>
> Tested-by: Nick Thompson<nick.thompson at ge.com>
> CC: Ben Warren<biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
>
Added to net repo.

regards,
Ben