Re: [PATCH] gpio: document how to order GPIO controllers

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:34:37AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > [Rob]:
> 
> >> Like SPI and I2C, I'm against further abuse of aliases for this purpose
> >> [1].
> 
> So what about the usecase for serial ports, where we use this
> to make sure the console come out where we want it? Is that
> also considered abuse or legitimate use? Note: I'm not trying to be
> snarky, I'm trying to understand what is the right and wrong use
> of alias. I'm confused about it right now :(

I guess it comes down to how ingrained the usage of any numbering is. 
For consoles, it was pretty important to maintain numbering and no 
alternative. But now with stdout-path that is less important. Perhaps if 
you have inittab with tty devices, then it is still needed.

So I guess I would summarize the requirement to be only cases needing to 
maintain numbering for existing userspace. The only users really caring 
about this have been on N900.

Rob
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