+Hans

Hi Joe,

On 7 July 2015 at 22:04, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> For USB Ethernet devices we need to use the usbethaddr environment variable
>> (instead of ethaddr) the Ethernet hardware address. Add this to the uclass
>> so that it happens automatically.
>
> I have always thought that this approach of having a separate prefix
> for usbethaddr was a smelly hack. Are we sure we want to propagate it
> here? Can we not just use dev->seq? It should already be unique in the
> DM, right? I was really looking forward to that all going away.

Ah, OK, sorry. Do you think we need a way of specifying the eth
interface # as we do with aliases at present? We did have one but Han
has just removed it :-)

Otherwise we'll just end up counting up from the last 'fixed' ethernet
interface. Maybe that is good enough.

Regards,
Simon
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