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Message-ID: <20141113112706.GC23422@ulmo>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:27:07 +0100
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, gregkh@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: tegra: move serial aliases to per-board

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:07:20AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi Thierry,
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:49:30PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >> There are general changes pending to make the /aliases/serial* entries
> >> number the serial ports on the system. On tegra, so far the ports have been
> >> just numbered dynamically as they are configured so that makes them change.
> >>
> >> To avoid this, add specific aliases per board to keep the old numbers. This
> >> allows us to change the numbering by default on future SoCs while keeping the
> >> numbering on existing boards.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Stephen/Thierry/Alex, as noticed this week we really should try to get
> >> this in before the 3.19 merge window so that the global aliases change
> >> can happen there without regression.
> >>
> >> If you have more fixes queued up, feel free to add this to the next pull
> >> request. If not, a review and ack would be appreciated.
> >>
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra114-dalmore.dts        |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra114-roth.dts           |    4 ++++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra114-tn7.dts            |    4 ++++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra114.dtsi               |    7 -------
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124-jetson-tk1.dts     |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124-nyan-big.dts       |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124-venice2.dts        |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124.dtsi               |    7 -------
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-harmony.dts         |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-iris-512.dts        |    5 +++++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-medcom-wide.dts     |    4 ++++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-paz00.dts           |    2 ++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-seaboard.dts        |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-tamonten.dtsi       |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-trimslice.dts       |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-ventana.dts         |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20-whistler.dts        |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20.dtsi                |    8 --------
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-apalis-eval.dts     |    4 ++++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-beaver.dts          |    1 +
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-cardhu.dtsi         |    2 ++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-colibri-eval-v3.dts |    3 +++
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30.dtsi                |    8 --------
> >>  23 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> >
> > I have applied this to the for-3.19/dt branch.
> 
> Maybe I wasn't entirely clear -- I was proposing to include this in
> the next batch of fixes for 3.18 so that the aliases processing code
> can go in for 3.19. If we hold this until the merge window we run the
> risk of having largeish parts of the merge window unbisectable (more
> than if we merge this as part of the next/dt contents).

Alex sent out two patches today that should go into 3.18, so let me
prepare a pull request include those and your patch.

Thierry

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