[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] davinci_emac: davinci_eth_set_mac_addr to ->write_hwaddr

[Nick Thompson]

On 13/09/10 22:04, 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 makes 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>
> CC: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
> CC: Nick Thompson <nick.thompson at ge.com>

This change seem reasonable to me from the da830evm point of view. I
don't have access to hardware for the next week or so, so I can't test
it now, but the da830 specific changes are minor.

Reviewed-by: Nick Thompson <nick.thompson at ge.com>