linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card controllers use fixed indices

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Date:   Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:29:19 +0800
From:   Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Cc:     "Y.b. Lu" <yangbo.lu@....com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ashish Kumar <ashish.kumar@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card
 controllers use fixed indices

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> We are going cirlces here. I guess Shawn (as the soc maintainer) has to
> step in and decide if a common soc include should contain aliases for
> nodes which are disabled. That is what it boils down to.
> 
> All other arguments against having aliases in the common include can be
> found in this thread.
> 
> > Distros, bootloaders, and users' cases using fixed index before could
> > avoid issues, and been used as they were.
> 
> Nobody argue against having these alias. We are arguing against having
> them in the common soc include.

342ab37ecaf8 ("arm64: dts: freescale: use fixed index mmcN for
layerscape") is dropped from my tree.

Shawn