[PATCH 0/2] ARM: mvebu: network interface naming

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Thomas,
 
 On mer., janv. 27 2016, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Dear mvebu maintainers,
>
> As was discussed back in November last year, the naming of network
> interfaces on Armada 38x is very confusing. Gregory Clement suggested
> to exceptionally violate the rule of "DT nodes should be ordered by
> register address" in order to reduce the confusion.
>
> The first patch implements this proposal.
>
> The second patch is a new iteration of the patch that adds comments to
> the Armada 385 DB AP Device Tree file. The contents of the patch is
> the same (add indications of which physical connector corresponds each
> port), only the commit log is adjusted to take into account the fact
> that thanks to the first patch, the naming of the network interfaces
> visible from Linux is now a lot more sane.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>
> Thomas Petazzoni (2):
>   ARM: mvebu: change order of ethernet DT nodes on Armada 38x
>   ARM: mvebu: add reference to ETH connectors for A385-AP
>

Even if we know that it is not perfect, I applied both pacthes on
mvebu/dt

Thanks,

Gregory

>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-385-db-ap.dts |  3 +++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi      | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> -- 
> 2.6.4
>

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