[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] fdt_support: Fixup 'ethernet' aliases not ending in digits

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04:55AM +0200, Tuomas Tynkkynen wrote:

> The Raspberry Pi device tree files since Linux v4.9 have a "ethernet"
> alias pointing to the on-board Ethernet device node. However,
> U-Boot's fdt_fixup_ethernet() only looks at ethernet aliases ending
> in digits.
> 
> As the spec doesn't mandate that aliases must end in numbers and there
> have been much older uses of an "ethernet" aliases in the wild
> (according to Tom Rini), change the code to accept "ethernet" as well.
> 
> Without this Linux isn't told of the MAC address provided by the
> RPI firmware and the ethernet interface is always assigned a random MAC
> address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas at tuxera.com>

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

-- 
Tom
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