Re: [PATCH] mips/alchemy: define eth platform devices in the correct order

[Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>]

Servus Wolfgang,

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> wrote:
> From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@denx.de>
>
> Currently, the eth devices are probed in the inverse order, first
> au1xxx_eth1_device and then au1xxx_eth0_device. On the GPR board,
> this makes trouble:
>
>  # ifconfig|grep HWaddr
>  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:C2:0C:30:01
>  eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 66:22:01:80:38:10
>
> A bogous ethernet hwaddr is assigned to the first device and
> au1xxx_eth0_device is mapped to eth1, which even does not work
> properly. With this patch, the problems are gone:
>
>  # ifconfig|grep HWaddr
>  eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 66:22:11:32:38:10
>  eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 66:22:11:32:38:11

Interesting.  I don't disagree with the patch; what do you think about
passing MAC address via platform_data?   I don't particularly like
how the driver is trying to get a MAC address using the prom interface.

I'll try to cook something up.

Manuel