With the introduction of driver model and accompanying changes, outdated code in netconsole.c leads to compilation errors when both CONFIG_NETCONSOLE and CONFIG_DM_ETH are set.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 with DM_ETH. v2 adds some proper subsystem prefixes on the commit messages, and enables a test case (sunxi board configuration for Banana Pi/Pro) that combines CONFIG_DM_ETH and CONFIG_NETCONSOLE.
I have tested the resulting code on my Banana Pi (sun7i / Allwinner A20) and had a functional NetConsole again. I also backported eth_is_active() and the netconsole.c changes to v2015.04, to make sure they properly worked in case CONFIG_DM_ETH is absent (v2015.04 predates the introduction of DM_ETH, and I'm lacking other hardware to test CONFIG_NETCONSOLE with).
Regards, B. Nortmann
Changes in v2: - add "net:" prefix to commit message - add "net:" prefix to commit message - add "net:" prefix to commit message
Bernhard Nortmann (5): net: expose eth_is_active() function to test network device state net: fix netconsole when CONFIG_DM_ETH is set net: avoid eth_unregister() call when function is unavailable net: support NETCONSOLE option via Kconfig sunxi: add NetConsole by default for Banana Pi/Pro
common/bootm.c | 2 ++ configs/Bananapi_defconfig | 3 ++- configs/Bananapro_defconfig | 3 ++- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 14 +++++++++++--- include/net.h | 6 ++++++ net/Kconfig | 6 ++++++ net/eth.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 7 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)