[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] net: Remove all references to CONFIG_ETHADDR and friends

Albert ARIBAUD albert.aribaud at 3adev.fr
Tue May 5 09:17:33 CEST 2015


Bonjour Simon,

Le Mon, 4 May 2015 15:37:22 -0600, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> a
écrit :

> On 4 May 2015 at 13:55, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com> wrote:
> > We really don't want boards defining fixed MAC addresses in their config
> > so we just remove the option to set it in a fixed way. If you must have
> > a MAC address that was not provisioned, then use the random MAC address
> > functionality.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> > ---
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

As much as I support the idea that one should not hard-code MAC
addresses, I also support the idea that changes should not break
previous behavior.

And regarding the WORK board which I submitted, its configuration
header file had this address encoded in the in-house U-Boot which
the customer was using before; removing this address might lead to
the customer provisioning scripts failing.

Cordialement,
Albert ARIBAUD
3ADEV


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