On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 04:40:47PM +0100, Gavin Schenk wrote: > When you have a static network environment but more than one network > device on your machine it is necessary to provide the <device> parameter > to the ip parameter at kernel cmd line. > > The device name assigned by Linux cannot in general be predicted as it > depends on driver bind order. > > This patch introduces a new property linux.devname to eth devices. > The value is added to bootargs per interface and can be changed in > env/network/INTF > > Note that the device name is also used when dhcp is in use. > > Signed-off-by: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > This is V2 of "[PATCH] Configure network device for nfsboot via nv var" After first thinking that the former patch was a good idea, seeing this now I agree with Sascha this new approach is better. Maybe add the following (in a separate commit?): diff --git a/defaultenv/defaultenv-2-base/network/eth0 b/defaultenv/defaultenv-2-base/network/eth0 index 33fe7c1b2b48..992e37a35deb 100644 --- a/defaultenv/defaultenv-2-base/network/eth0 +++ b/defaultenv/defaultenv-2-base/network/eth0 @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ serverip= # MAC address if needed #ethaddr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx +# device name under Linux (needed for static setups with more than +# one network adapter) +#linuxdevname=eth0 + # put code to discover eth0 (i.e. 'usb') to /env/network/eth0-discover exit 0 Other than that: Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox