linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards

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Message-ID: <20170725031819.ryllvq5a3tdwyblj@angband.pl>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 05:18:19 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     icenowy@...c.io
Cc:     Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add ethernet0 alias for several A64 boards

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:04:24AM +0800, icenowy@...c.io wrote:
> 在 2017-07-24 15:58，Maxime Ripard 写道：
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:28:49AM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> > > Allwinner A64 SoC has an EMAC which is used to provide Ethernet
> > > function on several boards.
> > > 
> > > The EMAC itself doesn't have a fixed MAC address, but the sunxi
> > > mainline U-Boot have the ability to generate one based on the eFUSE
> > > SID in the chip, and add the generated MAC address to the device
> > > tree when booting.
> > > 
> > > The MAC address setting step is based on the device tree's aliases,
> > > and device tree nodes prefixed "ethernet" will get the MAC address
> > > added. However, in several A64 boards' device tree, the alias is not
> > > set up, so that the U-Boot won't set the MAC address.
> > > 
> > > Add the ethernet0 aliases to these boards.
> > > 
> > > I hope this patchset can be queued in 4.13, otherwise 4.13 kernels
> > > won't get non-volatile MAC addresses, and will use random ones
> > > instead, which is annoying to many users.
> > > 
> > > Icenowy Zheng (3):
> > >   arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for BPi M64 EMAC node
> > >   arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for Pine64 EMAC node
> > >   arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for SoPine EMAC node
> > 
> > Applied all three, thanks!
> 
> Sorry, but could you queue them to 4.13?
> 
> Otherwise 4.13 kernel release will have annoying random MAC problem,
> which heavily affects headless usages.

Perhaps it would be better to reword the commit subject as "fix missing
ethernet0 alias ..."?  That'd convey that the previous behaviour is a defect
that needs these patches as a fix.


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