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

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 16:58:05 CET 2021


Hi Michael,

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 12:51 PM 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>

Yes, this is the preferred node naming as per the Devicetree Specification:

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>


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