Re: [PATCH] gpio: omap: Honor "aliases" node

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 05:21:23PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:18 AM Alexander Sverdlin
> <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currently the naming of the GPIO chips depends on their order in the DT,
> > but also on the kernel version (I've noticed the change from v5.10.x to
> > v5.11). Honor the persistent enumeration in the "aliases" node like other
> > GPIO drivers do.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > Yes, I noticed checkpatch "WARNING: DT binding docs and includes should be
> > a separate patch."
> > However, the parts below are tiny and barely make sense separately.
> 
> I've shut it down in the past because the instance ordering is a
> linuxism and the needs are in the Linux userspace somehow.
> It is different from a UART for example, which always need to
> be at the same place on any operating system, hence it has an
> alias.
> 
> For kernelspace the instance order should not matter, since
> all resources are obtained from the device tree anyway
> by phandle.

Thank you!

Can we remove the ones we have already for GPIO? 

BTW, It's been on my todo list for a while to start requiring 
documentation of alias names so we can reject new ones and get rid of 
some of the unused existing ones. Some platforms have numbered 
everything...

Rob