Hi Albert,

On 5 May 2015 at 01:17, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.arib...@3adev.fr> wrote:
> Bonjour Simon,
>
> Le Mon, 4 May 2015 15:37:22 -0600, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> a
> écrit :
>
>> On 4 May 2015 at 13:55, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com> wrote:
>> > We really don't want boards defining fixed MAC addresses in their config
>> > so we just remove the option to set it in a fixed way. If you must have
>> > a MAC address that was not provisioned, then use the random MAC address
>> > functionality.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com>
>> > ---
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
>
> As much as I support the idea that one should not hard-code MAC
> addresses, I also support the idea that changes should not break
> previous behavior.
>
> And regarding the WORK board which I submitted, its configuration
> header file had this address encoded in the in-house U-Boot which
> the customer was using before; removing this address might lead to
> the customer provisioning scripts failing.

Shouldn't this be done with either MAC address or
CONFIG_BOOTP_VCI_STRING or similar?

Regards,
Simon
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