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Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of network interfaces

From Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of network interfaces
Date 2016-08-24 22:10 +0200
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Hello,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:27:58 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:14:44PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Depends on the network driver I believe. But with an e1000e NIC plugged
> > in a PCIe slot, it indeed gets assigned as eth0, and the internal
> > mvneta devices get eth1, eth2, etc.  
> 
> Which of course means the change does not actually ensure the port
> ordering matches the marvell documentation or u-boot.  It only handles
> the relative order of the ports.  For now.

Correct.

> So since it doesn't actually work, maybe reverting it so it no longer
> violates the dtb ordeting rule makes sense.

I'll let the platform maintainers decide what's the least
intrusive/problematic option. Both solutions have drawbacks, so it's
really a "political" decision to make here.

> Doesn't mean openwrt/lede/etc don't have to deal with the ordering in
> the future if async probing takes off.

Not only async probing, but also PCIe devices, as you mentioned
earlier :-)

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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[Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> - 2016-08-21 15:20 +0200
  Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-08-24 17:00 +0200
    Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2016-08-24 18:40 +0200
      Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-08-24 18:50 +0200
        Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2016-08-24 19:20 +0200
          Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2016-08-24 20:50 +0200
    Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 19:20 +0200
      Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2016-08-24 20:10 +0200
        Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-08-24 20:20 +0200
          Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2016-08-24 20:30 +0200
            Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-08-24 22:10 +0200
              Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2016-08-24 23:00 +0200
      Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> - 2016-08-24 20:50 +0200
        Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> - 2016-08-24 22:50 +0200
          Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> - 2016-08-24 23:50 +0200
            Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 09:40 +0200
              Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2016-08-25 21:50 +0200
              Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of network interfaces Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-08-26 10:50 +0200
                Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of  network interfaces Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 12:40 +0200

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