Messages in this thread | | | From | Chen-Yu Tsai <> | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:56:02 +0800 | Subject | Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 1/3] arm64: allwinner: a64: add ethernet0 alias for BPi M64 EMAC node |
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Hi,
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io> wrote: > The Banana Pi M64 board uses the A64 chip's EMAC to provide Ethernet > link. > > Add the ethernet0 alias in the device tree, in order to let U-Boot > generate a MAC address from the chip's SID. > > Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
As mentioned in the discussion of the cover letter of this series, we'd really like to move this to fixes for 4.13.
I'd like to move forward on this soon. Can I just do a wholesale rewrite of the commit message along the lines of the following example, and move the 3 patches to fixes for 4.13?
arm64: allwinner: a64: bananapi-m64: add missing ethernet0 alias
The EMAC Ethernet controller was enabled, but an accompanying alias was not added. This results in unstable numbering if other Ethernet devices, such as a USB dongle, are present. Also, the bootloader uses the alias to assign a generated stable MAC address to the device node.
Fixes: e7295499903d ("arm64: allwinner: bananapi-m64: Enable dwmac-sun8i")
Thanks ChenYu
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