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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:07:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Serial port aliases in DT
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> I disagree with this one: the aliases should be a board specific
> property, if not settable in the boot loader. This is how it traditionally
> work on OF, and I think it's the most sensible approach for end users:
> If the machine has multiple serial ports coming out the back, they are
> normally numbered in some way, and the numbers should match what you
> see in the OS, regardless of what the SoC calls them.

I agree with this one, makes sense. It calls for quite some cleanup,
though:

$ grep aliases arch/arm/boot/dts/*.dtsi | wc -l
79


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