From: ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com (Ezequiel Garcia)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:17:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140306191747.GA32655@arch.cereza> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140306172339.GP4780@lunn.ch>
On Mar 06, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Can't we fix this so the probe order doesn't affect the name?
> >
> > Is that sane?
>
> You are not supposed to trust the device name, since probing can
> happen in parallel, on different buses. udev should have rules to name
> the interfaces based on the MAC address. On my Debian system i have:
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>
> So what is important is that the MAC addresses are assigned correctly
> to the device. And DT does that based on MMIO address, so should be
> reliable, independent of probe order.
>
Right, makes perfect sense!
So we can just keep the nodes address-ordered, without caring about the name?
--
Ezequiel Garc?a, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@marvell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>,
Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>,
Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:17:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140306191747.GA32655@arch.cereza> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140306172339.GP4780@lunn.ch>
On Mar 06, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Can't we fix this so the probe order doesn't affect the name?
> >
> > Is that sane?
>
> You are not supposed to trust the device name, since probing can
> happen in parallel, on different buses. udev should have rules to name
> the interfaces based on the MAC address. On my Debian system i have:
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>
> So what is important is that the MAC addresses are assigned correctly
> to the device. And DT does that based on MMIO address, so should be
> reliable, independent of probe order.
>
Right, makes perfect sense!
So we can just keep the nodes address-ordered, without caring about the name?
--
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-06 12:11 [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 12:11 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 12:11 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 13:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 13:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 13:26 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 13:26 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 14:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 14:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 14:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 14:31 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 14:31 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 14:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 14:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 14:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 14:51 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 14:51 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 14:51 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 15:47 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 15:47 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 15:47 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-06 16:02 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-03-06 16:02 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-03-06 17:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 17:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-06 19:17 ` Ezequiel Garcia [this message]
2014-03-06 19:17 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-03-07 9:53 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-07 9:53 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-07 9:53 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-03-07 14:44 ` Jason Cooper
2014-03-07 14:44 ` Jason Cooper
2014-03-07 21:42 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-03-07 21:42 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-03-07 21:42 ` One Thousand Gnomes
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