Hi Russell King, On mer., juil. 27 2016, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I can move it to the mvebu/fixes branch, it is not too late. Also what about to apply it on the stable kernel? Gregory > > -- > 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. -- Gregory Clement, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com -- 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
