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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 02:10:21 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Darren Stevens <darren@...vens-zone.net> Cc: madalin.bacur@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss@...error.net, chzigotzky@...osoft.de, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH dpss_eth] Don't initialise ports with no PHY On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:29:38PM +0100, Darren Stevens wrote: > Since cbb961ca271e ("Use random MAC address when none is given") > Varisys Cyrus P5020 boards have been listing 5 ethernet ports instead of > the 2 the board has.This is because we were preventing the adding of the > unused ports by not suppling them a MAC address, which this patch now > supplies. > > Prevent them from appearing in the net devices list by checking for a > 'status="disabled"' entry during probe and skipping the port if we find > it. Hi Darren I'm surprised the core is probing a device which has status disabled. Are you sure this is the correct explanation? Thanks Andrew
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