Re: [RFC] OMAP DT i2c aliases

[Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>]

On  2.06.2014 18:42, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 06/01/2014 09:28 AM, Ivaylo Dimitrov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/744 fixes DT i2c bus ids in case
>> of deferred probe and assigns id 0,1 and 2 for i2c buses 1,2 and 3.
>> Unfortunately, this breaks Maemo userspace on N900, where board code (in
>> case of legacy boot) assigns ids 1, 2 and 3, but with DT boot ids are
>
> ughh.. missed that :(
>
>> 0,1 and 2. I've already send a patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/1/49
>> that will allow me to fix that from board .dts, but I was wondering if
>> it is the correct way, or ids should be changed in omap3.dtsi for all
>> omap devices.
>
> Should'nt we retain 0,1,2 as indexing to make this consistent for all
> SoCs?
>
>

I think this is the most sane thing, esp if the "alias replace" patch 
gets accepted(thus allowing us to workaround the problems on N900 and 
N9/50), however I wanted to hear from you on the matter. Esp that 
indexing is different with legacy boot compared to DT boot.