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Re: RedBoot - Try initializing default ethernet first
- From: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
- To: andrew at lunn dot ch
- Cc: dvrabel at arcom dot com, ecos-patches at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:14:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: RedBoot - Try initializing default ethernet first
- References: <40EA8689.6090603@arcom.com> <20040813072943.GY27052@lunn.ch>
>>>>> Andrew Lunn writes:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:01:29PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patches changes the way RedBoot initializes the ethernet
>> devices. Now it tries the default before falling back to trying all the
>> others. This can speed up boot times as ethernet initialization can be
>> a slow process with some drivers (auto-negotiation timeouts etc.) and
>> now (in most cases) only one ethernet device (the default) will be
>> initialized.
> Hi David
> Sorry for the long response time. This is more Gary's area but he
> seems to of missed this patch.
> I don't like the patch as is. It changes the default behavour. Only
> the default_device will be started, leaving the others
> uninitialised. People who are using the none default device are
> suddenly going to have a system that does not work.
"none" device? Is there such a thing?
Anyway, the suggested patch restores the original behavior I
setup when I added the support for multiple net devices. Not
sure why Gary changed that (I wasn't paying attention :).
--Mark