On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:08:19PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
On Armada 38x, the available network interfaces are:
- port 0, at 0x70000
- port 1, at 0x30000
- port 2, at 0x34000
Due to the rule saying that DT nodes should be ordered by register
addresses, the network interfaces are probed in this order:
- port 1, at 0x30000, which gets named eth0
- port 2, at 0x34000, which gets named eth1
- port 0, at 0x70000, which gets named eth2
(if all three ports are enabled at the board level)
Unfortunately, the network subsystem doesn't provide any way to rename
network interfaces from the kernel (it can only be done from
userspace). So, the default naming of the network interfaces is very
confusing as it doesn't match the datasheet, nor the naming of the
interfaces in the bootloader, nor the naming of the interfaces on
labels printed on the board.
For example, on the Armada 388 GP, the board has two ports, labelled
GE0 and GE1. One has to know that GE0 is eth1 and GE1 is eth0, which
isn't really obvious.
In order to solve this, this patch proposes to exceptionaly violate
the rule of "order DT nodes by register address", and put the 0x70000
node before the 0x30000 node, so that network interfaces get named in
a more natural way.
The danger is that this will completely mess up people's existing
scripts/distro configuration which are now used to the current
labelling of the network ports.
Not every distro provides a sane way to deal with this...
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