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

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Tue Jun 21 18:58:50 EDT 2011


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> 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).

There is no difference between OFW and DTC aliases as far as I'm aware.

g.



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