If aliases are not present in device tree, stmmac_platform.c will
happily assign bus_id of 0 to all the ethernet interfaces, resulting
in hard to debug problems.

At least warn the user about the problem.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pa...@denx.de>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
index f9b42f1..ee8aa26 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
@@ -161,8 +161,10 @@ static int stmmac_probe_config_dt(struct platform_device 
*pdev,
                plat->max_speed = -1;
 
        plat->bus_id = of_alias_get_id(np, "ethernet");
-       if (plat->bus_id < 0)
+       if (plat->bus_id < 0) {
+               dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "no aliases for ethernet; multiple 
ethernets will break\n");
                plat->bus_id = 0;
+       }
 
        /* Default to phy auto-detection */
        plat->phy_addr = -1;

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