I have a device (Dell VMWare Edge 640VN) that has 6 GbE ports and 2 SFP+ ports. Four of the 6 GbE ports use the igb driver while the remaining 2 and the SFP+ ports use the ixgbe driver. Network ports are marked on the case as GE1 thru GE 6 and SFP1 and SFP2. When using the current OpenWrt 25.12.2 it enumerates the devices as follows:
GE1: eth2: pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.2
GE2: eth3: pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.3
GE3: eth0: pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.0
GE4: eth1: pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.1
GE5: eth7: pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0/0000:07:00.1
GE6: eth6: pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0/0000:07:00.0
SFP1:eth4: pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:05:00.0
SFP2:eth5: pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:05:00.1
I tried the following 02_network script to map the devices:
ucidef_set_network_device_path "ge1" "pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.2"
ucidef_set_network_device_path "ge2" "pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.3"
ucidef_set_network_device_path "ge3" "pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.0"
ucidef_set_network_device_path "ge4" "pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/0000:02:00.1"
ucidef_set_network_device_path "ge5" "pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0/0000:07:00.1"
ucidef_set_network_device_path "ge6" "pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0/0000:07:00.0"
ucidef_set_network_device_path "sfp1" "pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:05:00.0"
ucidef_set_network_device_path "sfp2" "pci0000:00/0000:00:16.0/0000:05:00.1"
ucidef_set_interfaces_lan_wan "ge1 ge2 ge3 ge4 ge5" "ge6"
;;
This doesn’t have the intended result as once bootup has completed the ge5, ge6, sfp1 and sfp2 devices do not appear to be present. The dmesg log shows that the devices using the igb driver appear to be remapped by the 02_network script before the ixgbe driver load is completed and the devices using the ixgbe driver are never mapped. This appears to be caused by the ixgbe drive not being present in the modules-boot.d directory. What is the correct patch to ensure that the ixgbe driver is included in the modules-boot.d directory?