Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
In message 20090812210339.GE21725@game.jcrosoft.org you wrote:
What exactly is the problem you are addressing with this patch?
Please provide a commit message that explains what is going on, and what is being changed or fixed.
simple it impossible to known what will be your device index in the driver specially when you have 2 or more drivers instance once or more
Sorry, but we don't have driver instances in U-Boot. Even if you have several Ethernet interfaces of the same type, there will be only a single device driver instance.
so you can not update the mac addres in the env if you want to do it as we do on smc91111 as we can not known eth%daddr you are which allow us the avoid to read the eeprom every time we want to use the eth
At any time, there is (at most) a single active interface.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk