From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC34BCD5BAD for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2024 11:45:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:Message-ID:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date: MIME-Version:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=P0Ur2BPImMA0ASLf+1LG8Tkzaux8tXdSw6YWPA1hiac=; b=h1whqGaiJVSA/ZAoTpEiQ0FzBk xM6biGDH7aVilgc6Mce3Kx84Si6LowMtws+mWIvh4dLCWhQbKoWBA1tCTOYCTFG7Zi8C50I2CXw/1 ufkIPEgSJbVn/fJUxrrUXnuVy9iGGgAMkrpXaYCqFpLSjhqlgIryzEaQPHIlhfDOcXxr//VRaDqV0 4uMQ/CxpIk4mWDrA2q2i9KUX1meAQqyIFkcQ7190usMYPAQUHOtB2RLR3ph8nd1HpU0nrz/N4z6DO rR8UoM/4U9VVTdB0aIHdj9DvVVTxBtEL2AeM/sw1qU3ejbMbyjVprGb4V0es7XBosT6+guVNqYjTK TygcAyMA==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1smAvS-00000008APZ-20w3; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:45:22 +0000 Received: from mail.manjaro.org ([2a01:4f8:c0c:51f3::1]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1smAtf-00000008AAC-2MdZ; Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:43:33 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=manjaro.org; s=2021; t=1725536609; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=P0Ur2BPImMA0ASLf+1LG8Tkzaux8tXdSw6YWPA1hiac=; b=QPQLjAG3dBUqXqxYSNytajB1xh++6w2NDLVV+q196vOaXJSQRcdm6/3JSRJXxocJI7UKl4 tBfT05ynWkc0jLqQ77bxv6U1+Di5InRimdFVfT7YsPCR/+eULog3x5BmXmsBpZ6adJQlNL 57qCDyDyfY+qFrBGI1PSri1LqIISlpkvGTJ4zaiuxpGdRaRy+wr+kgb/NhIj2eMboFSDIE 87L1vSXQ5KxNZnxz07LOkUneWbs6/BDgQ/VvcugCHrYBr2PFCa7AOOLaho7ANYQR/DqTmj 2Ml3kTWB7jBe66qhe7O8BFtv+wEq0XqOG3nN5tUb9vYcWn5ggT8rusmV4vwljA== Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:43:29 +0200 From: Dragan Simic To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, heiko@sntech.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, robh@kernel.org, krzk+dt@kernel.org, conor+dt@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Diederik de Haas Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add a few aliases to the PineTab2 dtsi In-Reply-To: References: <987e68d1c5e9a0cc56d730aec87246aa5ab8ea14.1725535770.git.dsimic@manjaro.org> Message-ID: <946b8248f5b282a8532c8532a3eda98e@manjaro.org> X-Sender: dsimic@manjaro.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Authentication-Results: ORIGINATING; auth=pass smtp.auth=dsimic@manjaro.org smtp.mailfrom=dsimic@manjaro.org X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20240905_044331_796684_C5F9E779 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 12.62 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hello Krzysztof, On 2024-09-05 13:39, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 05/09/2024 13:32, Dragan Simic wrote: >> Sprinkle a few commonly used aliases onto the PineTab2 dtsi file, to >> improve >> its readability a bit, to make it easier to refer to the actual nodes >> later, >> if needed, and to add a bit more detail to some of the labels. >> >> No functional changes are introduced, which was validated by >> decompiling and >> comparing all affected board dtb files before and after these changes. >> When >> compared with the decompiled original dtb files, some of the phandles >> in the >> updated dtb files have different values, and the updated dtb files >> contain >> some additional phandles and additional symbols that come from the >> introduced >> aliases, but they still effectively remain the same as the originals. >> >> Suggested-by: Diederik de Haas >> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic >> --- > > Unused aliases do not improve readability, so for me this change is > making code worse without valid reason. Then why do we already have, for example, unused "rk817_charger: charger" aliases in quite a few board dts(i) files? If those are actually seen as redundant, we should remove all of them.