[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v4 0/23] Add Driver Model support to network stack

[Joe Hershberger]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

[snip]

> - I think the recv() method should change before long. The
> NetReceive() call should be made from the uclass since it is common to
> all drivers. Then the recv() method can return a packet if it finds
> one, but not submit it for processing

I looked into doing this and I think it may be more of a step backward.
Currently devices can directly hand their DMA buffers to the network stack.
With this change, most drivers would be forced to memcpy each packet into
the supplied buffer.

I do plan to rename the function, though.

-Joe