[U-Boot] [PATCH 16/18] net: Allow drivers to return -ENOSYS with the write_hwaddr() method

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Jul 23 01:41:15 CEST 2015


On 6 July 2015 at 16:47, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Some drivers may want to implement this method for some of their devices but
> not for others. So it is not possible to just leave the operation out of
> the table. Drivers could get around this by masquerading as two separate
> drivers but that seems unpleasant.
>
> Allow the driver to return an error when it does not want to process the
> write_hwaddr() method.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>
>  include/net.h | 4 +++-
>  net/eth.c     | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to u-boot-dm.


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