On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:19:01PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > 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 It would be much better to get it into 4.8-rc so that we don't spread the port renumbering over a large range of kernels, as well as forcing vendors to carry patches like this to fix problems. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
