linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support

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Message-Id: <ba379b3b42f1659f4f6649c78b8bb1b2@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:52:47 +0200
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	Jason Liu <jason.hui@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Mitch Bradley <wmb@...mworks.com>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>, patches@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support

> Ah, we're having an impedance mismatch.  I'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).


Segher

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