From: Scott Wood Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:28:46 +0000 (-0500) Subject: [POWERPC] Document the linux,network-index property. X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~1109^2~165 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0a2f28b4dee2a1e4c62dc8389f25defb284e387;p=linux-2.6 [POWERPC] Document the linux,network-index property. To allow more robust association of each network device node with an index (such as is used by the firmware or an EEPROM to indicate MAC addresses), a network device's node may specify the index explicitly. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood Acked-by: David Gibson david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index a1f83f1c24..88cdb592fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -1182,6 +1182,13 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. - phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this ethernet controller. + Recommended properties: + + - linux,network-index : This is the intended "index" of this + network device. This is used by the bootwrapper to interpret + MAC addresses passed by the firmware when no information other + than indices is available to associate an address with a device. + Example: ethernet@24000 { @@ -1550,6 +1557,12 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened-device-tree model. - mac-address : list of bytes representing the ethernet address. - phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this controller. + Recommended properties: + - linux,network-index : This is the intended "index" of this + network device. This is used by the bootwrapper to interpret + MAC addresses passed by the firmware when no information other + than indices is available to associate an address with a device. + Example: ucc@2000 { device_type = "network";