[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 7/9] arc: add AXS101 board support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Feb 1 00:24:37 CET 2014


Dear Alexey,

In message <1391193816.4721.100.camel at abrodkin-8560l> you wrote:
> 
> CONFIG_ETHADDR & CONFIG_IPADDR - it's simple - we don't want to have
> duplicates of the same MAC or/and IP address within one network. So
> definitely these ones must go away.
> 
> But others doesn't affect other devices in the network so why don't we
> leave them as well?

It seems only consequent to omit all settings specific to the network
interface: addresses, netmask, etc.  And if you do not set an IP
address, it does not make sense to set a netmask, right?

Hostname (set to generic board name) is in so far somewhat of an
exception as quite a lot of people appear to use this to organize
their TFTP download directories.

It is difficult to give simple rules for these things.  There is a lot
of habits and decade old traditions involved, so please don't ask me
for some formally defined rule sets.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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