[U-Boot] [PATCH] mvgbe: remove setting of ethaddr within the driver

[Michael Walle]

Hi Wolfgang,

Am Donnerstag 10 November 2011, 12:44:26 schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Prafulla,
> 
> In message <48935aa530a6457b76b9915a1fe7faf9.squirrel at ssl.serverraum.org> 
Michael Walle wrote:
> > >> So was there any conclusion, now? Never touch mvgbe.c anymore?
> > > 
> > > Let's remove this broken code.
> > 
> > This is exactly part of this patch ([PATCH] mvgbe: remove setting of
> > ethaddr within the driver). This part, while ACK'ed by Mike, was NAK'ed
> > by Prafulla.
> 
> Could you please revise your assessment?  I would really appreciate if
> we could clean this up.
Regarding Prafulla's NAK?

Let me sum up this thread once again:
 - consens is found that the driver should be cleaned up (removing the
   randomization code)
 - at least the keymile boards are ok with that. but there may be plenty of
   other boards which rely on this (broken?) behaviour.
 - besides the fact that a driver must not touch the environment, the mvgbe
   driver also fails to do this correctly for boards which has only the second
   port enabled.
 - Prafulla NAKed because only removing the code will leave some boards in a
   non-working state.


i'm willing make a patch to move the randomization functionality to some 
generic place, but only if it is not NAKed by you beforehand. i dont have any 
time to waste ;)

-- 
Michael