[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v4 10/23] net: Make netretry actually do something

[Simon Glass]

Hi Joe,

On 24 February 2015 at 17:02, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com> wrote:
> netretry previously would only retry in one specific case (your MAC
> address is not set) and no other. This is basically useless. In the DM
> implementation for eth it turns this into a completely useless case
> since an un-configured MAC address results in not even entering the
> NetLoop. The behavior is now changed to retry any failed command
> (rotating through the eth adapters if ethrotate != no).
>
> It also defaulted to retry forever. It is now changed to default to not
> retry

That last bit seems like a big change. Does it mean that if I forget
to plug in the Ethernet it might not recover?

Regards,
Simon