From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V3 5/5] ARM: bcm2708: instantiate console UART
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:15:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505133CB.1060906@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209121045.39999.arnd@arndb.de>
On 09/12/2012 04:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2012, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
>>
>> This patch was extracted from git://github.com/lp0/linux.git branch
>> rpi-split as of 2012/09/08, and modified as follows:
>>
>> * Modified UART DT node to use a unit-address to differentiate UART node
>> names, rather than using different base names "uart0" and "uart1".
>> Note that UART 1 (the Broadcom "mini UART") is not yet present, but
>> I'm naming the DT node in anticipation that it will be added.
>>
>
> Shouldn't the selection be done using an alias like this?
>
> aliases {
> serial0 = &/uart at 20201000;
> };
The "differentiate" was more "ensure that node names in DT are unique"
than anything to do with user-visible selection/identification.
I can certainly add the alias if you want, but I don't know what benefit
it will have, since I've never used aliases before.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 4:18 [PATCH V3 1/5] ARM: add infra-structure for BCM2708/BCM2835 and Raspberry Pi Stephen Warren
2012-09-12 4:18 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] ARM: bcm2708: add interrupt controller driver Stephen Warren
2012-09-12 10:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-13 1:12 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-13 10:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-14 2:21 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-12 4:18 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] ARM: bcm2708: add system timer Stephen Warren
2012-09-12 10:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-12 4:18 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] ARM: bcm2708: add stub clock driver Stephen Warren
2012-09-12 11:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-12 4:18 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] ARM: bcm2708: instantiate console UART Stephen Warren
2012-09-12 10:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-13 1:15 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-09-13 10:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-12 9:01 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] ARM: add infra-structure for BCM2708/BCM2835 and Raspberry Pi Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-13 19:51 ` Domenico Andreoli
2012-09-14 2:16 ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-16 0:34 ` Olof Johansson
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