On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 09:33:37PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote: > Am Freitag, den 06.04.2018, 15:16 +0200 schrieb Sascha Hauer: > > For network boot we once used to hardcode eth0, but in latest changes > > this was changed to work with different network devices and the 'ifup > > eth0' was replaced with 'ifup -a' which lead to the result that we > > now > > detect all devices in order to eventually also bring up USB network > > adapters. In most of the cases this is not desired. When a board has > > internal network support this is likely to be used. With this patch > > we only detect all devices when we do not have a network device > > already. > > For the unusual case in which a USB network adapter shall be used > > even when an internal network interface is present we introduce the > > global variable "global.net.ifup_force_detect" which can be used to > > force detection of devices. > > This may warrant some more documentation. Without the code change and > the above commit message, the variable doc isn't too verbose about what > it does exactly. You're right. I added the following to the docs: +------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+ | global.net.ifup_force_detect | boolean | Set to true if your network device is not | | | | detected automatically during start (i.e. for | | | | USB network adapters) | +------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+ Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
