netdev - ethernet "bus" number in DTS ?

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Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:49:59 +0000
From:   Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@...inera.com>
To:     "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: ethernet "bus" number in DTS ?

SPI (and others) has a way to define bus number in a aliases:
	aliases {
		ethernet4 = &enet4;
		ethernet0 = &enet0;
		ethernet1 = &enet1;
		ethernet2 = &enet2;
		ethernet3 = &enet3;
		spi0 = &spi0
	};
The 0 in the spi0 alias will translate to bus num 0 so one can control the /dev nodes, like /dev/spidev0
I am looking for the same for ethernet devices:
 ethernet4 = &enet4;  /* should become eth4 */
 ethernet0 = &enet0;  /* should become eth0 */
but I cannot find something like that for eth devices.

Could such functionality be added?

 Jocke