From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregory.clement@free-electrons.com (Gregory CLEMENT) Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:48:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: mvebu: network interface naming In-Reply-To: <1453907300-28283-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:08:18 +0100") References: <1453907300-28283-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <87twlj1cnt.fsf@free-electrons.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Thomas, On mer., janv. 27 2016, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear mvebu maintainers, > > As was discussed back in November last year, the naming of network > interfaces on Armada 38x is very confusing. Gregory Clement suggested > to exceptionally violate the rule of "DT nodes should be ordered by > register address" in order to reduce the confusion. > > The first patch implements this proposal. > > The second patch is a new iteration of the patch that adds comments to > the Armada 385 DB AP Device Tree file. The contents of the patch is > the same (add indications of which physical connector corresponds each > port), only the commit log is adjusted to take into account the fact > that thanks to the first patch, the naming of the network interfaces > visible from Linux is now a lot more sane. > > Thanks! > > Thomas > > Thomas Petazzoni (2): > ARM: mvebu: change order of ethernet DT nodes on Armada 38x > ARM: mvebu: add reference to ETH connectors for A385-AP > Even if we know that it is not perfect, I applied both pacthes on mvebu/dt Thanks, Gregory > arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-385-db-ap.dts | 3 +++ > arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++--------- > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.6.4 > -- Gregory Clement, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com