With the introduction of driver model and accompanying changes, outdated code in netconsole leads to compilation errors when both CONFIG_NETCONSOLE and CONFIG_DM_ETH are set.
This is a series of patches to fix these issues and get netconsole working again. I have deliberately marked it "RFC" since I'm not entirely sure of what I'm doing here... Especially the bootm.c change (patch 3/3) probably needs review or improvement by someone more knowledgable on U-Boot networking / driver model.
Nevertheless I have tested the resulting code on my Banana Pi (sun7i / Allwinner A20) and had a functional netconsole again. I've also backported eth_is_active() and netconsole.c to v2015.04 to make sure they properly worked in case CONFIG_DM_ETH is absent.
Regards, B. Nortmann
Bernhard Nortmann (3): expose eth_is_active() function to test network device state fix netconsole when CONFIG_DM_ETH is set avoid eth_unregister() call when function is unavailable
common/bootm.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/netconsole.c | 14 +++++++++++--- include/net.h | 6 ++++++ net/eth.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)