On 11/11/2014 03:45 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
[again in plain text mode. Sigh]
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
On 11/11/2014 01:49 PM, 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.
This change seems mostly OK to me. FWIW though, I had suggested this
approach when the UART aliases were first added, and Laxman disagreed with
it. See commit b6551bb933f9 "ARM: tegra: dts: add aliases and DMA requestor
for serial controller", and its discussion:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/25/4. I've CC'd Laxman in case he still
objects.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <o...@lixom.net>
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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.
How did we resolve the issue that patch causes with old DTs; namely that it
causes a change in behaviour for those old DTs? On IRC, I'd wondered whether
we should set a flag so the kernel ignored aliases for boards containing
currently upstreamed Tegra SoCs so that issue wouldn't occur. If we did
that, we wouldn't need this patch.
Another way could be to remove aliases from the kernel side during
booting if they're found. Anyway, feel free to send a patch to do that
if that's your preference.
That would work too.
I'll let Thierry make the call re: whether it's important to support old
DTs with the current aliase content without a change in device names
when booted on a newer kernel. If not, as I mentioned, I'm fine with
this patch.
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