[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/5] tools: Add tool to add crc8 to a mac address

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 15:56:40 CET 2016


Hi Albert,

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hello Joe,
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:45:52 -0600, Joe Hershberger
> <joe.hershberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Olliver Schinagl
>> <o.schinagl at ultimaker.com> wrote:
>
>> > +++ b/tools/gen_mac_addr.c
>>
>> This is not "generating a mac address", right? Its point is to create
>> a CRC for the user-supplied MAC address.
>>
>> Perhaps a better name would be "gen_ethaddr_rom_crc".
>
> Hmm, why the "_rom" part?

Just to give more hints to the observer that this is for creating a
rom or eeprom image to be read by the associated new code in U-Boot.

Cheers,
-Joe

>
> Amicalement,
> --
> Albert.


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