[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/7] mx25: Define cpu_eth_init() only if needed

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Fri Sep 28 11:09:16 CEST 2012


On 27/09/2012 23:43, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> On Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:55:22 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>> Hi Benoît,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Benoît Thébaudeau
>> <benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com> wrote:
>>> The FEC is the only SoC Ethernet support available on i.MX25, so
>>> define
>>> cpu_eth_init() only for it instead of returning a misleading
>>> success code.
>>
>> Yes, but someone may want to use mx25 with a external LAN device
>> (such
>> as LAN92xx) instead of FEC.
> 
> Yes, but in that case I think that there should be a board_eth_init() function
> defined, so this patch won't cause any trouble here. See in
> net/eth.c:eth_initialize() how these functions and their default implementations
> are handled.

I think also that in this case a board_eth_init() must be used - the
#ifdef in cpu_eth_init() is then superflous.

Best regards,
Stefano


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