Hello, On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:27:58 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:14:44PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > Depends on the network driver I believe. But with an e1000e NIC plugged > > in a PCIe slot, it indeed gets assigned as eth0, and the internal > > mvneta devices get eth1, eth2, etc. > > Which of course means the change does not actually ensure the port > ordering matches the marvell documentation or u-boot. It only handles > the relative order of the ports. For now.
Correct. > So since it doesn't actually work, maybe reverting it so it no longer > violates the dtb ordeting rule makes sense. I'll let the platform maintainers decide what's the least intrusive/problematic option. Both solutions have drawbacks, so it's really a "political" decision to make here. > Doesn't mean openwrt/lede/etc don't have to deal with the ordering in > the future if async probing takes off. Not only async probing, but also PCIe devices, as you mentioned earlier :-) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
