[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 07/13] dm: net: Use existing Ethernet init for driver model

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 18:14:47 CET 2015


Hi Simon,

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> At present even with driver model is used there is still much manual init
> of related devices: PHY, environment and board init. Until these
requirements
> are dealt with in another way we need to keep them around.

That's a good idea for dealing with this for now. I have a series I started
where I replace all of this (hence I didn't include it in the
eth_initialize() of my dm/eth series).  This will allow dm/eth to be used
on hardware with fairly low churn in the mean time.

> Break out the init portion of the legacy eth_initialize() into a separate
> function and call it from both the legacy and driver model
eth_initialize()
> functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>


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