linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: dts: ti: Add support for J784S4 EVM board

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:35:10 +0200
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Cc:     Andrew Davis <afd@...com>, Apurva Nandan <a-nandan@...com>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Tero Kristo <kristo@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        Hari Nagalla <hnagalla@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: dts: ti: Add support for J784S4 EVM board

* Nishanth Menon <nm@...com> [221118 22:12]:
> I don't buy the argument here for 1-1 mapping of aliased serial
> instances to instances - why should main_uart8 be ttyS10, why not
> ttyS8 (it is equally valid - why was it called uart8?).. That mapping
> is just a convention we are choosing to create.

Heh yeah IMO uart8 should be ttyS8.. I agree let's not break the userspace
device names as we've seen what kind of nightmare that ends up being.

Regards,

Tony