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| author | Bernhard Nortmann <bernhard.nortmann@web.de> | 2015-09-14 15:29:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com> | 2015-09-29 21:54:45 -0500 |
| commit | eaa8a195cc2372349276bf7d581a9e1e2cc83511 (patch) | |
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| parent | 26d3acdab86a4ade8e9407822d8cdbe51b1f7412 (diff) | |
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net: expose eth_is_active() function to test network device state
The previous eth_device struct returned by eth_get_dev() allowed
code to directly query the state member field. However, with
CONFIG_DM_ETH this data gets encapsulated (i.e. private), and
eth_get_dev() returns a udevice struct 'abstraction' instead.
This breaks legacy code relying on the former behaviour - e.g.
netconsole.
(see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-June/216528.html)
The patch introduces a method to retrieve the ethernet device
state in a 'clean' and uniform way, supporting both legacy code
and driver model. The new function eth_is_active() accepts a
device struct pointer and tests it for ETH_STATE_ACTIVE.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Nortmann <bernhard.nortmann@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
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