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

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:58:50 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	patches@...aro.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Jason Liu <jason.hui@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mitch Bradley <wmb@...mworks.com>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> 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).

There is no difference between OFW and DTC aliases as far as I'm aware.

g.
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