From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add linux.devname property to eth device
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:15:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171124081559.ttdrfnx2kbv7j6yu@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171121154047.27334-1-g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Hi Gavin,
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 04:40:47PM +0100, Gavin Schenk wrote:
> 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>
Looks much better now. This needs some updates to fit into the
networking update series I just sent, but I'll handle that soon
when I see if this series can be taken or not.
Sascha
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2017-11-21 15:40 Gavin Schenk
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