[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] drivers/net/fec_mxc.c: write mac address ininit

[Steve Sakoman]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Friday, October 22, 2010 11:00:37 Steve Sakoman wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> > Jason Liu wrote:
>> >> Geting mac address from FUSE is the right way for mx51 and it's not
>> >> difficult to add FUSE read function due to the FUSE read is simple as
>> >> the memory read. I have seen that Shawn has posted the patches to
>> >> Linaro-uboot git there.
>> >
>> > It's a pity that Linaro does it's development out-of-tree, but it's
>> > their decision, and we cannot help it.
>>
>> Hmmm . . . I'm doing OMAP3 & 4 u-boot work for Linaro and *all* of my
>> work is based on current mainline!
>
> technically speaking, *everyone* is doing work "based on mainline".  but if
> you're maintaining a fork without getting merged, then Wolfgang's statement is
> still pretty correct.  if i cant checkout current mainline from Wolfgang and
> get stuff working, then something is wrong.

I can't speak for others, but the lifetime of a patch in my working
branch is just a few days before it gets posted to the list.

Frankly I can't imagine working any closer to top of tree.  I do daily
merges and builds and send fix patches as soon as I have them.

Steve