[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 <scottwood@freescale.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
index a1f83f1..88cdb59 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
@@ -1182,6 +1182,13 @@
- 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 @@
- 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";