Hi Joe,
On 8 July 2015 at 14:43, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Simon,
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
+Hans
Hi Joe,
On 7 July 2015 at 22:04, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Simon,
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
For USB Ethernet devices we need to use the usbethaddr environment variable (instead of ethaddr) the Ethernet hardware address. Add this to the uclass so that it happens automatically.
I have always thought that this approach of having a separate prefix for usbethaddr was a smelly hack. Are we sure we want to propagate it here? Can we not just use dev->seq? It should already be unique in the DM, right? I was really looking forward to that all going away.
Ah, OK, sorry. Do you think we need a way of specifying the eth interface # as we do with aliases at present? We did have one but Han has just removed it :-)
Can you reference where this happened. A quick search didn't turn it up for me.
Otherwise we'll just end up counting up from the last 'fixed' ethernet interface. Maybe that is good enough.
That's probably good enough, but some may prefer more explicit control.
The thread is here:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/485637/
Before, we could I think add USB devices to the device tree and give them a specific number (although I never actually tested it), but that won't work now.
Regards, Simon