[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: Add a command to access the EEPROM from ethernet devices

[Joe Hershberger]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Alban Bedel <alban.bedel at avionic-design.de>
wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 17:17:00 +0200
> Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, October 09, 2014 at 01:42:49 PM, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > > Many ethernet devices use an EEPROM to store various settings, most
> > > commonly the device MAC address. But on some devices it can contains
> > > a lot more, for example USB device might also have many USB related
> > > parameters.
> > >
> > > This commit add a set of commands to read/write this EEPROM, write a
> > > default configuration and read/write the device MAC address. The
> > > defaults command allow priming the EEPROM for devices that need more
> > > than just a MAC address in the EEPROM.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel <alban.bedel at avionic-design.de>
> >
> > I will not comment on the code yet, but would like to discuss the
concept
> > instead. I wonder, can we not have a more generic command here? One
which
> > can manage the ethernet device altogether, not just adjust it's eeprom?
> > Something like 'ethtool' in Linux ...
> >
> > What do you think please ?
>
> Currently this is all I need for the boards I'm working on. However I
> have no problem with splitting the command from 'eth_eeprom' to
> 'eth eeprom' to leave room for other stuff.

I agree that the command would be better if it was "eth eeprom"

-Joe