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Commit e0a2f28b authored by Scott Wood's avatar Scott Wood Committed by Paul Mackerras
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[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: default avatarScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
parent a9903811

Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt

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@@ -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

    - phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this ethernet

      controller.

      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:

  Example:





	ethernet@24000 {

	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.

   - mac-address : list of bytes representing the ethernet address.

   - phy-handle : The phandle for the PHY connected to this controller.

   - 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:

   Example:

	ucc@2000 {

	ucc@2000 {

		device_type = "network";

		device_type = "network";