Dear Kyle Moffett, In message <1297467482-14864-3-git-send-email-kyle.d.moff...@boeing.com> you wrote: > By allocating the e1000 device structures much earlier, we can easily > generate better error messages and siginficantly clean things up. > > The only user-visable change (aside from reworded error messages) is > that a detected e1000 device which fails to initialize due to software > or hardware error will still be allocated a device number. > > As one example, consider a system with 2 e1000 PCI devices where the > first controller has a corrupted EEPROM. Using the old code the > second controller would be "e1000#0", while with this change it would be > "e1000#1". > > This change should hopefully make such EEPROM errors much more > straightforward to handle correctly in boot scripts and the like. > > It is also necessary for a followup patch which allows SPI programming > of an e1000 controller's EEPROM even if the checksum is invalid.
This patch has a number of overlong lines. Please globally fix the line length. Thanks. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de To be is to program. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
