[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board
Ezequiel Garcia
ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 6 14:17:47 EST 2014
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?
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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