[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: eth-uclass: Write MAC address to hardware after probe

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at ni.com
Tue Apr 16 16:37:11 UTC 2019


On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:24 AM Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
>
> In order for the device to use the proper MAC address, which can have
> been configured in the environment prior to the device being registered,
> ensure that the MAC address is written after the device has been probed.
> For devices that are registered before the network stack is initialized,
> this is already done during eth_initialize(). If the Ethernet device is
> on a bus that is not initialized on early boot, such as PCI, the device
> is not available at the time eth_initialize() is called, so we need the
> MAC address programming to also happen after probe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>

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


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