Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-04 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Eric Nelson, In message 51faef05.1050...@boundarydevices.com you wrote: While testing Troy's usbnet patches, I was reminded of this mysterious warning issued when the environment has no mac address stored, but the device provides one: printf(\nWarning: %s using MAC address from

Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-04 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Stefano Babic, In message 51fbaf54.1090...@denx.de you wrote: Well, I have found it very useful in case I set explicitely the ethaddr variable, so I know where the MAC address comes from. Do you find it disturbing ? Maybe we could replace warning with info. No, warning is perfectly

Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-04 Thread Eric Nelson
On 08/04/2013 01:24 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Stefano Babic, In message 51fbaf54.1090...@denx.de you wrote: Well, I have found it very useful in case I set explicitely the ethaddr variable, so I know where the MAC address comes from. Do you find it disturbing ? Maybe we could replace

Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-02 Thread Stefano Babic
Hi Eric, On 02/08/2013 01:28, Eric Nelson wrote: Hi all, While testing Troy's usbnet patches, I was reminded of this mysterious warning issued when the environment has no mac address stored, but the device provides one: printf(\nWarning: %s using MAC address from net device\n,

Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:08:36PM +0200, Stefano Babic wrote: Hi Eric, On 02/08/2013 01:28, Eric Nelson wrote: Hi all, While testing Troy's usbnet patches, I was reminded of this mysterious warning issued when the environment has no mac address stored, but the device provides one:

Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-02 Thread Stefano Babic
Hi Tom, On 02/08/2013 16:16, Tom Rini wrote: Well, I have found it very useful in case I set explicitely the ethaddr variable, so I know where the MAC address comes from. Do you find it disturbing ? Maybe we could replace warning with info. On am335x the message we use is: ethaddr not set.

Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-02 Thread Eric Nelson
Thanks Tom, On 08/02/2013 07:16 AM, Tom Rini wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 03:08:36PM +0200, Stefano Babic wrote: Hi Eric, On 02/08/2013 01:28, Eric Nelson wrote: Hi all, While testing Troy's usbnet patches, I was reminded of this mysterious warning issued when the environment has no mac

Re: [U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-02 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Stefano Babic wrote: Hi Tom, On 02/08/2013 16:16, Tom Rini wrote: Well, I have found it very useful in case I set explicitely the ethaddr variable, so I know where the MAC address comes from. Do you find it disturbing ? Maybe we could replace

[U-Boot] Mac address warning

2013-08-01 Thread Eric Nelson
Hi all, While testing Troy's usbnet patches, I was reminded of this mysterious warning issued when the environment has no mac address stored, but the device provides one: printf(\nWarning: %s using MAC address from net device\n, dev-name); Why is this a warning?