[U-Boot] Mac address warning

Eric Nelson eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
Sun Aug 4 22:37:09 CEST 2013


On 08/04/2013 01:24 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stefano Babic,
>
> In message <51FBAF54.1090502 at denx.de> you wrote:
>>
>> 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".
>
> No, warning is perfectly right here.  We deviate from the normal
> initialization sequence, and the user should note that (and eventually
> take measures to resolve the problem).
>
Thanks Wolfgang,

Stefano and Tom straightened me out and I forwarded a patch to
address the issue that mxc_fec.c wasn't properly setting a
default ethaddr when an address is programmed in fuses.

Regards,


Eric



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