[PATCH] ARM: dts: armada388-clearfog: number LAN ports properly

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:19:01PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  On ven., juil. 08 2016, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 02:58:39PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> >> Currently, the ports as seen from the rear number as:
> >> 
> >> 	eth0 sfp lan5 lan4 lan3 lan2 lan1 lan6
> >> 
> >> which is illogical - this came about because the rev 2.0 boards have the
> >> LEDs on the front for the DSA switch (lan5-1) reversed.  Rev 2.1 boards
> >> fixed the LED issue, and the Clearfog case numbers the lan ports
> >> increasing from left to right.
> >> 
> >> Maintaining this illogical numbering causes confusion, with reports that
> >> "my link isn't coming up" and "my connection negotiates 10base-Half"
> >> both of which are due to people thinking that the port next to the SFP
> >> is lan1.
> >> 
> >> Fix this by renumbering the ports to match people's expectations.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
> 
> I missed this patch, but I now applied it on mvebu/dt-4.9

It would be much better to get it into 4.8-rc so that we don't spread
the port renumbering over a large range of kernels, as well as forcing
vendors to carry patches like this to fix problems.

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