Dear Eric Nelson, In message <[email protected]> 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 net device\n", > dev->name); > > Why is this a warning? It's the out-of-the box default > for new boards who haven't saved a mac address to the > persistent environment.
It is a warnign because in U-Boot the "ethaddr" environment variable is considered the primary source of information here. If it is missing, U-Boot may try to use other sources for this information, but it will warn you that it is not doing the normal thing. 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: [email protected] "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
