Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2014 18:23:39 +0100 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board |
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> Can't we fix this so the probe order doesn't affect the name? > > Is that sane?
You are not supposed to trust the device name, since probing can happen in parallel, on different buses. udev should have rules to name the interfaces based on the MAC address. On my Debian system i have:
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
So what is important is that the MAC addresses are assigned correctly to the device. And DT does that based on MMIO address, so should be reliable, independent of probe order.
Andrew
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