[PATCH RFC] cmd: fix net list command

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 02:33:01PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Ramon,
> 
> In message <CAGi-RUJqhd=dAo7cJqtTmv3G=VfDGFuyn0=YgHZGVGhTkH0t-g at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > It appears that Michael has some board and a scenario that *this* bug
> > was working for his best interest, where he can have two distinct MAC
> > addresses, one in U-boot and one in Linux.
> 
> If the Linux environment is supposed to be a specific MAC address
> (which may be different from the one passed by U-Boot), then there
> are standard tools available to set the address.  I don't see a
> problem here.

One thing I'm not totally sure on yet is, looking at the README I see:
"If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC
addresses will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization
process.  This may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip'
environment variable.  The naming convention is as follows: "ethmacskip"
(=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc."

As I'm sure that predates device trees being used to the extent they are
now, should 'ethmacskip' be involved in the "fixup the device tree"
logic, and appropriate rST / Kconfig help text updated?  My first
reaction is that in spirit, this is how to solve Michael's use case and
README / doc/README.enetaddr do not specify when/why the "also fixup the
device tree if it exists" is done.

-- 
Tom
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