Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: armada388-clearfog: number LAN ports properly

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Hi,
 
 On ven., juil. 08 2016, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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>

I missed this patch, but I now applied it on mvebu/dt-4.9

Thanks,

Gregory

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