[PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 21 18:52:47 EDT 2011


> Ah, we're having an impedance mismatch.  I'm thinking specifically
> about the device tree compiler and some syntactic sugar for using the
> label definition to generate /also/ create alias properties. The
> hairiness is related to that and the way that dtc is implemented, not
> with the final aliases themselves.

You can generate DTC-style aliases from OFW-style aliases instead (or
as well), it has other advantages (like being more readable, and having
the aliases grouped together).


Segher




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