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

[Ramon Fried]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 5:58 PM Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
Ack-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev at gmail.com>