[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] e1000: Restructure and streamline PCI device probing

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Apr 12 22:17:51 CEST 2011


Dear Kyle Moffett,

In message <1297467482-14864-3-git-send-email-Kyle.D.Moffett at boeing.com> you wrote:
> By allocating the e1000 device structures much earlier, we can easily
> generate better error messages and siginficantly clean things up.
> 
> The only user-visable change (aside from reworded error messages) is
> that a detected e1000 device which fails to initialize due to software
> or hardware error will still be allocated a device number.
> 
> As one example, consider a system with 2 e1000 PCI devices where the
> first controller has a corrupted EEPROM.  Using the old code the
> second controller would be "e1000#0", while with this change it would be
> "e1000#1".
> 
> This change should hopefully make such EEPROM errors much more
> straightforward to handle correctly in boot scripts and the like.
> 
> It is also necessary for a followup patch which allows SPI programming
> of an e1000 controller's EEPROM even if the checksum is invalid.

This patch has a number of overlong lines.  Please globally fix the
line length.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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