[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/20] dm: net: Support usbethaddr environment variable

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 06:04:12 CEST 2015


Hi Simon,

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> For USB Ethernet devices we need to use the usbethaddr environment variable
> (instead of ethaddr) the Ethernet hardware address. Add this to the uclass
> so that it happens automatically.

I have always thought that this approach of having a separate prefix
for usbethaddr was a smelly hack. Are we sure we want to propagate it
here? Can we not just use dev->seq? It should already be unique in the
DM, right? I was really looking forward to that all going away.

>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
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