Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpc832x_rdb: fix swapped ethernet ids

From: Michael Barkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:16:19 -0500

David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:28AM -0500, Michael Barkowski wrote:
>> ethernet0 (called FSL UEC0 in U-Boot) should be enet1 (UCC3/eth1), and
>> ethernet1 should be enet0 (UCC2/eth0), to be consistent with U-Boot so
>> that the interfaces do not swap addresses when control passes from
>> U-Boot to the kernel.
> 
> Um.. why is just swapping the aliases, rather than the enet labels the
> right approach here?

Kim suggested it was better to localize the port ordering as a property of the board rather than that of the QE, and I agreed.

-- 
Michael