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%3Ba=su...
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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Sun Mar 18 16:55:33 CET 2018
From: Baruch Siach baruch@tkos.co.il Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:44:39 +0200 Subject: ARM: dts: bcm2835: add index to the ethernet alias
From: Baruch Siach baruch@tkos.co.il
[ 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.
Fixes: 6a93792774 ("ARM: bcm2835: dt: Add the ethernet to the device trees") Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach baruch@tkos.co.il Acked-by: Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt eric@anholt.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- 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(-)
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9512.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9512.dtsi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ / { aliases { - ethernet = ðernet; + ethernet0 = ðernet; }; };
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9514.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm283x-rpi-smsc9514.dtsi @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ / { aliases { - ethernet = ðernet; + ethernet0 = ðernet; }; };
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from baruch@tkos.co.il are
queue-4.9/arm-dts-bcm2835-add-index-to-the-ethernet-alias.patch