On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 02:58:39PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Currently, the ports as seen from the rear number as:
>
> eth0 sfp lan5 lan4 lan3 lan2 lan1 lan6
>
> which is illogical - this came about because the rev 2.0 boards have the
> LEDs on the front for the DSA switch (lan5-1) reversed. Rev 2.1 boards
> fixed the LED issue, and the Clearfog case numbers the lan ports
> increasing from left to right.
>
> Maintaining this illogical numbering causes confusion, with reports that
> "my link isn't coming up" and "my connection negotiates 10base-Half"
> both of which are due to people thinking that the port next to the SFP
> is lan1.
>
> Fix this by renumbering the ports to match people's expectations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew
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