[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/5] Add support for SMSC95XX USB 2.0 10/100MBit Ethernet Adapter

[Simon Glass]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>>> Dear Simon Glass,
>>>
>>>> I could do, but halting is not in the driver at present. Do you think
>>>> it is important?
>>>
>>> Yes, it is important to shut down devices.  Especially with USB
>>> devices.
...
> So I think either halt should leave the link up, or we need a way to
> not call init/halt all the time.

And another note....'usb stop' will stop the device. So I feel that
leaving the link up is OK in this case, and I believe this is the
behavior of non-USB ethernet devices. I would prefer to leave halt()
as a no-op.

Regards,
Simon