[PATCH] Add linux.devname property to eth device

[Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>]

When you have a static network environment but more than one network
device on your machine it is necessary to provide the <device> parameter
to the ip parameter at kernel cmd line.

The device name assigned by Linux cannot in general be predicted as it
depends on driver bind order.

This patch introduces a new property linux.devname to eth devices.
The value is added to bootargs per interface and can be changed in
env/network/INTF

Note that the device name is also used when dhcp is in use.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
---

This is V2 of "[PATCH] Configure network device for nfsboot via nv var"

 include/net.h |  1 +
 net/eth.c     |  2 ++
 net/ifup.c    | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net.h b/include/net.h
index 632b6d541..0aa5569e0 100644
--- a/include/net.h
+++ b/include/net.h
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ struct eth_device {
 	IPaddr_t netmask;
 	IPaddr_t gateway;
 	char ethaddr[6];
+	char *linuxdevname;
 	char *bootarg;
 };
 
diff --git a/net/eth.c b/net/eth.c
index dac2400b8..fe661c832 100644
--- a/net/eth.c
+++ b/net/eth.c
@@ -384,6 +384,8 @@ int eth_register(struct eth_device *edev)
 	dev_add_param_ip(dev, "netmask", NULL, NULL, &edev->netmask, edev);
 	dev_add_param_mac(dev, "ethaddr", eth_param_set_ethaddr, NULL,
 			edev->ethaddr, edev);
+	edev->linuxdevname = xstrdup("");
+	dev_add_param_string(dev, "linux.devname", NULL, NULL, &edev->linuxdevname, NULL);
 	edev->bootarg = xstrdup("");
 	dev_add_param_string(dev, "linux.bootargs", NULL, NULL, &edev->bootarg, NULL);
 
diff --git a/net/ifup.c b/net/ifup.c
index 5113d1383..106700e2e 100644
--- a/net/ifup.c
+++ b/net/ifup.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ int ifup(const char *name, unsigned flags)
 	int ret;
 	char *cmd, *cmd_discover;
 	const char *ip;
+	const char *linuxdevname;
 	struct stat s;
 	int i;
 	struct device_d *dev;
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ int ifup(const char *name, unsigned flags)
 	env_push_context();
 
 	setenv("ip", "");
+	setenv("linuxdevname", "");
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(vars); i++)
 		setenv(vars[i], "");
@@ -95,6 +97,13 @@ int ifup(const char *name, unsigned flags)
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
+	linuxdevname = getenv("linuxdevname");
+	if (!linuxdevname)
+		linuxdevname = "";
+	ret = dev_set_param(dev, "linux.devname", linuxdevname);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
 	ip = getenv("ip");
 	if (!ip)
 		ip = "";
@@ -114,11 +123,12 @@ int ifup(const char *name, unsigned flags)
 			if (ret)
 				goto out;
 		}
-		bootarg = basprintf("ip=%pI4:%pI4:%pI4:%pI4:::",
+		bootarg = basprintf("ip=%pI4:%pI4:%pI4:%pI4::%s:",
 				&edev->ipaddr,
 				&edev->serverip,
 				&edev->gateway,
-				&edev->netmask);
+				&edev->netmask,
+				edev->linuxdevname);
 		dev_set_param(dev, "linux.bootargs", bootarg);
 		free(bootarg);
 	} else {
@@ -194,8 +204,9 @@ static int do_ifup(int argc, char *argv[])
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_START(ifup)
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Each INTF must have a script /env/network/INTF that set the variables")
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("ip (to 'static' or 'dynamic'), ipaddr, netmask, gateway, serverip and/or")
-BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("ethaddr. A script /env/network/INTF-discover can contains for discovering")
-BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("the ethernet device, e.g. 'usb'.")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("ethaddr, linuxdevname. A script /env/network/INTF-discover can contains")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("for discovering the ethernet device, e.g. 'usb'. If set, linuxdevname is")
+BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("added to bootargs as device parameter.")
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("")
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT("Options:")
 BAREBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT ("-a",  "bring up all interfaces")
-- 
2.15.0


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