Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:14:44 +0200 | From | Thomas Petazzoni <> | Subject | Re: [Regression?] Commit cb4f71c429 deliberately changes order of network interfaces |
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Hello,
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:07:27 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > The nice thing about having the order in the dtb I thought was that it > > wont ever change. > > I wonder, if someone was to build a box with this cpu, and add a PCIe > network device, which order would they get probed in? Any chance the > PCIe could grab eth0 before the mvneta devices get probed?
Depends on the network driver I believe. But with an e1000e NIC plugged in a PCIe slot, it indeed gets assigned as eth0, and the internal mvneta devices get eth1, eth2, etc.
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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