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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:05:36 +0300
From: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add aliases node to 8641hpcn DTS file.
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:38:38 -0700
Grant Likely wrote:

> >
> > +       aliases {
> > +               ethernet0 = &enet0;
> > +               ethernet1 = &enet1;
> > +               ethernet2 = &enet2;
> > +               ethernet3 = &enet3;
> > +               serial0 = &serial0;
> > +               serial1 = &serial1;
> > +               pci0 = &pci0;
> > +               pci1 = &pci1;
> > +       };  
> 
> I had thought aliases were supposed to be full paths to nodes instead
> of phandles.  Was I wrong?
no, but dwg did a patch for dtc to do that dirty work for you, resolving labels. I am also curious if such a change made it in
dtc git (working with full path aliases now). dtc should prolly get tagged and next sub-rev to be clear if it supports aliases or not.

-- 
Sincerely, Vitaly