[PATCH] net: use the same alias stem for ethernet as linux

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Apr 29 18:10:19 CEST 2021


On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 07:51, Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc> wrote:
>
> Linux uses the prefix "ethernet" whereas u-boot uses "eth". This is from
> the linux tree:
>
> $ grep "eth[0-9].*=.*&" arch/**/*dts{,i}|wc -l
> 0
> $ grep "ethernet[0-9].*=.*&" arch/**/*dts{,i}|wc -l
> 633
>
> In u-boot device trees both prefixes are used. Until recently the only
> user of the ethernet alias was the sandbox test device tree. This
> changed with commit fc054d563bfb ("net: Introduce DSA class for Ethernet
> switches"). There, the MAC addresses are inherited based on the devices
> sequence IDs which is in turn given by the device tree.
>
> Before there are more users in u-boot and both worlds will differ even
> more, rename the alias prefix to "ethernet" to match the linux ones.
> Also adapt the test cases and rename any old aliases in the u-boot
> device trees.
>
> Cc: David Wu <david.wu at rock-chips.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
> ---
> Vladimir, I didn't do another patch to rename any ethernet aliases to
> "eth". Though kontron boards contain "ethernetN" aliases, all in tree
> variants don't make use of it. So there is nothing to be fixed.
>
>  arch/arm/dts/fsl-ls1028a-rdb.dts | 12 ++++++------
>  arch/sandbox/dts/test.dts        | 10 +++++-----
>  net/eth-uclass.c                 |  4 ++--
>  test/dm/ofnode.c                 |  2 +-
>  test/dm/test-fdt.c               |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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