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Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes
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Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:19:46 +0100 |
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 at 15:11, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> On 8/16/21 7:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> Depends on what you call "that code".
Sentence should be parsed 'I thought that (code wasn't supposed...)'.
That is, my understanding was that the kernel simply doesn't provide
the ordering/naming guarantee that your test code seems to want.
-- PMM
- Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes, (continued)
Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes, Peter Maydell, 2021/08/16
Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes, Guenter Roeck, 2021/08/16
Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes, Peter Maydell, 2021/08/16
Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes, Guenter Roeck, 2021/08/16
Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes,
Peter Maydell <=
Re: [PATCH] hw: ppc: sam460ex: Disable Ethernet devicetree nodes, Guenter Roeck, 2021/08/16