Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 1/3] arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for BPi M64 EMAC node

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于 2017年8月10日 GMT+08:00 上午11:56:02, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx> 写到:
>Hi,
>
>On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@xxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> The Banana Pi M64 board uses the A64 chip's EMAC to provide Ethernet
>> link.
>>
>> Add the ethernet0 alias in the device tree, in order to let U-Boot
>> generate a MAC address from the chip's SID.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@xxxxxxx>
>
>As mentioned in the discussion of the cover letter of this series,
>we'd really like to move this to fixes for 4.13.
>
>I'd like to move forward on this soon. Can I just do a wholesale
>rewrite of the commit message along the lines of the following
>example, and move the 3 patches to fixes for 4.13?

Yes.

Thanks!

>
>arm64: allwinner: a64: bananapi-m64: add missing ethernet0 alias
>
>The EMAC Ethernet controller was enabled, but an accompanying alias
>was not added. This results in unstable numbering if other Ethernet
>devices, such as a USB dongle, are present. Also, the bootloader uses
>the alias to assign a generated stable MAC address to the device node.
>
>Fixes: e7295499903d ("arm64: allwinner: bananapi-m64: Enable
>dwmac-sun8i")
>
>
>Thanks
>ChenYu
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