Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 15:00, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> The controllers are instantiated (it looks like the Linux driver doesn't
> really check during probe if the hardware is present but relies on DT),
> but when trying to access them there is a PHY error. If a different Ethernet
> device is explicitly specified and instantiated, it either ends up as eth2
> or as eth0, depending on the driver load order. That makes it difficult
> to test those other Ethernet devices (and with it the PCI controller).

I thought that code wasn't supposed to rely on the naming/ordering of
ethX anyway these days?

thanks
-- PMM