Re: RFC: Platform data for onboard USB assets

Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-11T15:55:57Z

On Friday 11 March 2011, Roger Quadros wrote:
> > A udev rule would solve the problem at hand, but I'd consider that
> > an ugly workaround as well. The naming in the kernel is really
> > bogus -- any USB device that has a fixed address gets treated
> > as eth0, while others become usb0, with the same driver,
> > see the code fragment below.
>
> but isn't that sensible? a real ethernet hardware will have a MAC
> address. no?

I have just verified with my Pandaboard that the pins on the SMSC9514
usb ethernet that are meant to be connected to a serial EEPROM are
indeed not connected anywhere.

Arnd