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| author | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2012-07-12 08:23:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2012-07-12 08:23:58 +0200 |
| commit | 0878222fed3fafbfd0b1f2e5a6b2da90a81e910d (patch) | |
| tree | f88ba4ad1c5f06e6a772d5062c526d8153a71678 /doc | |
| parent | 0b15d51ed07db4c318d9c6b02b394ba5a3bc4296 (diff) | |
| parent | 154177e14a141468374f438ed3096ab097b79976 (diff) | |
| download | u-boot-0878222fed3fafbfd0b1f2e5a6b2da90a81e910d.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'next' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-net into next
* 'next' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-net:
net: Inline the new eth_setenv_enetaddr_by_index function
net: allow setting env enetaddr from net device setting
net/designware: Consecutive writes to the same register to be avoided
CACHE: net: asix: Fix asix driver to work with data cache on
net: phy: micrel: make ksz9021 phy accessible
net: abort network initialization if the PHY driver fails
phylib: phy_startup() should return an error code on failure
net: tftp: fix type of block arg to store_block
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.enetaddr | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.enetaddr b/doc/README.enetaddr index 2d8e24f5cb..1eaeaf9416 100644 --- a/doc/README.enetaddr +++ b/doc/README.enetaddr @@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ Correct flow of setting up the MAC address (summarized): 1. Read from hardware in initialize() function 2. Read from environment in net/eth.c after initialize() -3. Give priority to the value in the environment if a conflict +3. The environment variable will be compared to the driver initialized + struct eth_device->enetaddr. If they differ, a warning is printed, and the + environment variable will be used unchanged. + If the environment variable is not set, it will be initialized from + eth_device->enetaddr, and a warning will be printed. 4. Program the address into hardware if the following conditions are met: a) The relevant driver has a 'write_addr' function b) The user hasn't set an 'ethmacskip' environment variable |