Subject: Re: Second ethernet on kirkwood does not work when probed through DT

From: Jonas Gorski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:48:53 +0200

On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 13:36:51 +0200
Sebastian Hesselbarth <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 07/07/2013 01:26 PM, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> > On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:52:52 +0200
> > Sebastian Hesselbarth<[email-masked]>  wrote:
> >> Anyway, can you please try to have both ports reg properties set
> >> to<0>, with nodes named ethernet0-port@0 and ethernet1-port@0,
> >> and the platform_device_alloc in mv643xx_eth modified?
> >
> > In addition I added a static counter for the allocated devs (to not
> > overwrite the pointers in port_platdev[]).
> 
> Ok, but that is not required to make it work, is it? IMHO we should
> honor what is passed by reg property, even it will be always zero
> for KW and the other Orion SoCs. Otherwise, we would implicitly put
> the numbering in the order of port nodes.

No, picking the next free "slot" should work, too - it was just the
easiest to fix the name for the alloc to what seems to be expected by
other parts.

> > That seems to work, as now eth1 comes up and works (successfully got a
> > IP through DHCP).
> 
> Ok, great. Will prepare a fix for mv643xx_eth on top of net-next. And
> an update of the kirkwood conversion patches.

Thanks,
Jonas