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    ARM: dts: armada-38x: change order of ethernet DT nodes on Armada 38x · cb4f71c4
    Thomas Petazzoni authored
    On Armada 38x, the available network interfaces are:
    
     - port 0, at 0x70000
     - port 1, at 0x30000
     - port 2, at 0x34000
    
    Due to the rule saying that DT nodes should be ordered by register
    addresses, the network interfaces are probed in this order:
    
     - port 1, at 0x30000, which gets named eth0
     - port 2, at 0x34000, which gets named eth1
     - port 0, at 0x70000, which gets named eth2
    
    (if all three ports are enabled at the board level)
    
    Unfortunately, the network subsystem doesn't provide any way to rename
    network interfaces from the kernel (it can only be done from
    userspace). So, the default naming of the network interfaces is very
    confusing as it doesn't match the datasheet, nor the naming of the
    interfaces in the bootloader, nor the naming of the interfaces on
    labels printed on the board.
    
    For example, on the Armada 388 GP, the board has two ports, labelled
    GE0 and GE1. One has to know that GE0 is eth1 and GE1 is eth0, which
    isn't really obvious.
    
    In order to solve this, this patch proposes to exceptionaly violate
    the rule of "order DT nodes by register address", and put the 0x70000
    node before the 0x30000 node, so that network interfaces get named in
    a more natural way.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
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