RedBoot - Try initializing default ethernet first

[Mark Salter]

>>>>> 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