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From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
Cc: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
	Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>, Clark Wang <xiaoning.wang@nxp.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"imx@lists.linux.dev" <imx@lists.linux.dev>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: enetc: Support ethernet aliases in dts.
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250226200229.kdg2ls2ejhsbzbwi@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AS8PR04MB91767705160830CD63341E3089C22@AS8PR04MB9176.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 07:43:34PM +0200, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> So my understanding here is that the primary purpose of Ethernet aliases in the 
> kernel DTS is simply to provide U-Boot with easier access to specific Ethernet nodes?

This is what my limited experience is telling me, yes.

      reply	other threads:[~2025-02-26 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-25 21:44 [PATCH net-next] net: enetc: Support ethernet aliases in dts Shenwei Wang
2025-02-26 14:57 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-02-26 15:07   ` Shenwei Wang
2025-02-26 15:10     ` Vladimir Oltean
2025-02-26 15:47 ` Vladimir Oltean
2025-02-26 16:46   ` Shenwei Wang
2025-02-26 17:10     ` Vladimir Oltean
2025-02-26 17:43       ` Shenwei Wang
2025-02-26 20:02         ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]

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