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

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Russell King,
 
 On mer., juil. 27 2016, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.

I can move it to the mvebu/fixes branch, it is not too late. Also what
about to apply it on the stable kernel?

Gregory

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