Patch "ARM: dts: bcm2835: add index to the ethernet alias" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: dts: bcm2835: add index to the ethernet alias
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-dts-bcm2835-add-index-to-the-ethernet-alias.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From foo@baz Sun Mar 18 16:55:33 CET 2018
From: Baruch Siach <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:44:39 +0200
Subject: ARM: dts: bcm2835: add index to the ethernet alias
From: Baruch Siach <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 10b6c0c2e2bb8cd1be682f8d36ef597e3419cb88 ]
An alias name should have an index number even when it is the only of its type. This allows U-Boot to add the local-mac-address property. Otherwise U-Boot skips the alias.
--- arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9512.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9514.dtsi | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9512.dtsi +1 -1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ / { aliases { - ethernet = ðernet; + ethernet0 = ðernet; }; };
arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9514.dtsi +1 -1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ / { aliases { - ethernet = ðernet; + ethernet0 = ðernet; }; };
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.9/arm-dts-bcm2835-add-index-to-the-ethernet-alias.patch