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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:34:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARM: shmobile: koelsch: Rename SCIF[01] serial ports to ttySC[01]
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Hi Geert,

On Tuesday 02 December 2014 22:11:52 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> >         aliases {
> >> > 
> >> > -               serial6 = &scif0;
> >> > -               serial7 = &scif1;
> >> > +               serial0 = &scif0;
> >> > +               serial1 = &scif1;
> >> 
> >> Actually the labels on my Koelsch read "debug0" and "debug1".
> >> Do we care?
> > 
> > I thought serial port aliases were required to be named "serial" ?
> 
> ePAPR v1.1 only mentions up to 31 characters out of [a-z0-9-].
> Nothing about rgeneric names like with node names.

The sh-sci driver calls of_alias_get_id(np, "serial") to retrieve the port 
number. The alias must then start by "serial" unless I'm missing something.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart