From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: Adding aliases to mmc Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:17:32 -0600 Message-ID: <5239C40C.9030503@wwwdotorg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Fabio Estevam Cc: Dirk Behme , linux-mmc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Sascha Hauer List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org On 09/17/2013 12:04 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote: > Hi Dirk, > > I have adapted your patch at: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-July/111022.html > > and tested it on 3.12-rc1 on a mx6qsabresd board. > > Do you have plans to submit it? Maybe as a RFC? > > It solves the mmcblkX order issue on my tests and it would be nice we > could have this problem addressed. Patches to make mmc block devices have static names have been proposed in the past and rejected. I think the main reason is that the block device names are (or can be) dynamic, so anything that assumes a particular naming scheme is simply broken. The correct solution is to use e.g. root=UUID=xxx or root=PARTUUID=xxx, or similar techniques for other filesystems (e.g. /etc/fstab) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html