On Mar 06, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Can't we fix this so the probe order doesn't affect the name? > > > > Is that sane? > > You are not supposed to trust the device name, since probing can > happen in parallel, on different buses. udev should have rules to name > the interfaces based on the MAC address. On my Debian system i have: > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > > So what is important is that the MAC addresses are assigned correctly > to the device. And DT does that based on MMIO address, so should be > reliable, independent of probe order. > Right, makes perfect sense! So we can just keep the nodes address-ordered, without caring about the name? -- Ezequiel García, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering 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
