Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] ARM: dts: STiH407: Add B2120 board support

[Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@st.com>]

On 05/20/2014 09:43 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>>> +       soc {
>>>>> +               sbc_serial0: serial@9530000 {
>>>>> +                       status = "okay";
>>>>> +               };
>>>>
>>>> You might want to consider reference-based syntax here instead, so you
>>>> don't have to mimic the hierarchy. That'd be (at the root level of the
>>>> file, below this secion:
>>>>
>>>> &sbc_serial0: {
>>>>          status = "okay";
>>>> };
>>>
>>> I'm personally not keen on this scheme.  It's sometimes helpful to know
>>> the hierarchy and I don't think it's a large overhead to format the
>>> subordinate DTS files in this way.
>>>
>>> Please consider not enforcing this.
>>
>> Definitely not enforcing it, and I didn't use to like it either but it
>> has some real upsides.
>>
>> In particular, it saves a lot of grief when you're changing something
>> like the unit-id of a node in .dtsi and forget to do the same update
>> in the dts.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what a unit-id is, but I can see that there
> would be benefits to using the referenced-based syntax as you call
> it.  If any of those benefits hold true here I won't push back, but I
> would personally like to see us default to the hierarchical scheme.


+1, I would prefer to keep the hierarchical scheme.