Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:17:47 -0300 | From | Ezequiel Garcia <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board |
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On Mar 06, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > 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. >
Right, makes perfect sense!
So we can just keep the nodes address-ordered, without caring about the name?
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