/aliases node and valid property names

/aliases node and valid property names

[Tom Rini]

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Hey all,

I found out about https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/613 and
in digging a little harder, this is not the first case where 'ethernet'
has been added rather than 'ethernet0'.  Looking at the spec, it's
implied (by all the examples) that property names end in a number but
it's certainly allowable by the way things are worded to not.  Is it
worth adding any further words here, another example, or just leaving
everything alone?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom

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Re: /aliases node and valid property names

[David Gibson]

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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:19:06PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I found out about https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/613 and
> in digging a little harder, this is not the first case where 'ethernet'
> has been added rather than 'ethernet0'.  Looking at the spec, it's
> implied (by all the examples) that property names end in a number but
> it's certainly allowable by the way things are worded to not.  Is it
> worth adding any further words here, another example, or just leaving
> everything alone?  Thanks!

Numbers shouldn't be required.  Certainly on old OF-era machines,
aliases called simply 'net' or 'disk' were both common and useful.

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Re: /aliases node and valid property names

[Tom Rini]

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 04:27:05PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:19:06PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I found out about https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/613 and
> > in digging a little harder, this is not the first case where 'ethernet'
> > has been added rather than 'ethernet0'.  Looking at the spec, it's
> > implied (by all the examples) that property names end in a number but
> > it's certainly allowable by the way things are worded to not.  Is it
> > worth adding any further words here, another example, or just leaving
> > everything alone?  Thanks!
> 
> Numbers shouldn't be required.  Certainly on old OF-era machines,
> aliases called simply 'net' or 'disk' were both common and useful.

OK.  So leave things alone, or add a sentence / example without (and
assume that this thread will be enough for anyone in the future who sees
the occasional alias without a number and wonders if that's valid) ?
Thanks!

-- 
Tom

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