[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] expose eth_is_active() function to test network device state

[Bernhard Nortmann]

Hi Simon!

Am 23.08.2015 23:21, schrieb Simon Glass:
> A few points:
>
> - You should tag your patch with the subsystem it targets - in your
> case I think you should prefix the subject with 'net: '
Okay. I'll keep that in mind for future reiterations of this patch set.
Btw: Thanks for looking into my stuff.

> - Do you have a patch to enable netconsole on an existing board? If
> the code you add is never built then it could break at any moment
netconsole seems to receive little love actually :D (It's been broken / 
would
cause compilation errors with CONFIG_DM_ETH for quite some time now,
since commit b6006baf9c2553543e3384983d23d95efbf24fa6 in April.)
So I'm not sure I get your question. As mentioned in the cover letter I've
been testing this code with and without CONFIG_DM_ETH for my Banana Pi,
i.e. sunxi GMAC (by simply adding #define CONFIG_NETCONSOLE).

Regards, B. Nortmann

> Regards,
> Simon