From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:04:07 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/2] fdt: Add fdtdec_find_aliases() to deal with alias nodes In-Reply-To: <1326824452-14786-2-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> References: <1326824452-14786-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <1326824452-14786-2-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> Message-ID: <4F1CC017.1090501@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 01/17/2012 01:20 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > Stephen Warren pointed out that we should use nodes whether or not they > have an alias in the /aliases section. The aliases section specifies the > order so far as it can, but is not essential. Operating without alisses Nitpick: aliases > is useful when the enumerated order of nodes does not matter (admittedly > rare in U-Boot). > > This is considerably more complex, and it is important to keep this > complexity out of driver code. This patch creates a function > fdtdec_find_aliases() which returns an ordered list of node offsets > for a particular compatible ID, taking account of alias nodes. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass Acked-by: Gerald Van Baren Thanks, gvb