Hi Etienne,
On 6/25/24 1:42 PM, Etienne Dublé wrote:
Hello,
Le 25/06/2024 à 12:25, Dragan Simic a écrit :
Another option may be to name them "rtl8169@<hexa>", with "<hexa>"
reflecting the PCI region address (so it is unique and stable). What
do you think?
I guess that's one way, I'm also wondering how systemd renames those
to be unique but stable on the same machine, maybe we could take some
inspiration from them for that?
Systemd also allows renaming of network interfaces using some rules
predefined by the user, so there's also the possibility to rename the
interfaces in U-Boot to ethernet0 and ethernet1, using fixed rules
that would be based on the PCI region address.
OK but the renaming occurs in the rtl8169 driver, that is used by
several boards, whereas the PCI region addresses come from the
device-tree, so they differ from board to board.
I'm of the opinion that we only care about stability for the same
product, not for different products with the same Ethernet PHY on
different SoCs/products.
Cheers,
Quentin
