From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Likely Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:58:50 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1308410354-21387-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo@linaro.org> <1308410354-21387-2-git-send-email-shawn.guo@linaro.org> <20110618161934.GH8195@ponder.secretlab.ca> <20110619073000.GA23171@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <20110621135558.GB9228@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <4E00F290.2010303@firmworks.com> <4E011678.4030208@firmworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org To: Segher Boessenkool Cc: patches-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org, Jason Liu , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Jeremy Kerr , Sascha Hauer , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote: >> Ah, we're having an impedance mismatch. =A0I'm thinking specifically >> about the device tree compiler and some syntactic sugar for using the >> label definition to generate /also/ create alias properties. The >> hairiness is related to that and the way that dtc is implemented, not >> with the final aliases themselves. > > You can generate DTC-style aliases from OFW-style aliases instead (or > as well), it has other advantages (like being more readable, and having > the aliases grouped together). There is no difference between OFW and DTC aliases as far as I'm aware. g.