commit 06345733e3389ec54018a9d8d3bf6a272b914f12
author Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair@google.com> Wed Apr 15 16:06:32 2020 -0700
committer Ratan Gupta <ratagupt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tue May 26 14:02:06 2020 +0000
tree 5557dc534059c8f40cca87fbbfe169cdc1dab880
parent f15503ec46edbcf4ccc2d07f79c9e2d0bcb458b2

Allow disabling use of u-boot environment

Not all systems have a writable u-boot environment, so add an autoconf
argument to disable the use of it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair@google.com>
Change-Id: I04074c28f81214dd59a974440e51be0da50c5d63

ethernet_interface.cpp

diff --git a/ethernet_interface.cpp b/ethernet_interface.cpp
index 6fc1e2e..f7343ad 100644
--- a/ethernet_interface.cpp
+++ b/ethernet_interface.cpp
@@ -979,12 +979,16 @@
         MacAddressIntf::mACAddress(value);
 
         auto interface = interfaceName();
+
+#ifdef HAVE_UBOOT_ENV
         auto envVar = interfaceToUbootEthAddr(interface.c_str());
         if (envVar)
         {
             execute("/sbin/fw_setenv", "fw_setenv", envVar->c_str(),
                     value.c_str());
         }
+#endif // HAVE_UBOOT_ENV
+
         // TODO: would remove the call below and
         //      just restart systemd-netwokd
         //      through https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6696