[U-Boot] Mac address warning

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:08:36PM +0200, Stefano Babic wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On 02/08/2013 01:28, Eric Nelson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > While testing Troy's usbnet patches, I was reminded of
> > this mysterious warning issued when the environment has
> > no mac address stored, but the device provides one:
> > 
> >     printf("\nWarning: %s using MAC address from net device\n",
> >             dev->name);
> > 
> > Why is this a warning? It's the out-of-the box default
> > for new boards who haven't saved a mac address to the
> > persistent environment.
> 
> Well, I have found it very useful in case I set explicitely the ethaddr
> variable, so I know where the MAC address comes from. Do you find it
> disturbing ? Maybe we could replace "warning" with "info".

On am335x the message we use is:
<ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
And then validate it, and setenv.

-- 
Tom
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