linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: meson: sei510: consistently order nodes

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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 09:41:18 +0200
From:   Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
To:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
Cc:     linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: meson: sei510: consistently order nodes

On 11/05/2019 17:52, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 14:43 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> minor nit: I kind of like "aliases" and "chosen" at the top since they
>> are kind of special nodes, but honestly, I can't think of a really good
>> reason other than personal preference, so keeping things sorted as
>> you've done here is probably better.
>>
> 
> You thought the same, then thought maybe memory was important too. But going
> down that path, you end up sorting by feeling. It is going to be difficult
> to all agree on which nodes are special.
> 
> In the end, we just want/need something that is easy to respect and verify.

I think it would be better to have the same layout for aliases and memory over
all the amlogic DTS, it's common over all socs to have these nodes on top.

Neil

> 
>> Kevin
> 
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