[PATCH] tty: serial: msm_serial: Use DT aliases

Frank Rowand frowand.list at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 13:35:45 PST 2014


On 11/7/2014 1:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 06 November 2014 22:42:47 Frank Rowand wrote:
>> This same change is also needed in:
>>
>>   qcom-ipq8064.dtsi
>>   qcom-msm8960.dtsi
>>   qcom-apq8084.dtsi
>>   qcom-apq8064.dtsi
>>   qcom-msm8660.dtsi
>>
>> but I did not want to just blindly apply those changes without testing.
>>
> 
> Is there only one uart on each of these?
> 
> If not, it would be better to put the aliases in the board specific file,
> pointing to whichever ports are in use, in the order that makes sense
> for that board.

Good point, thanks for bringing it up.

Your comment made me verify that the board dts files can override the
aliases from the included .dtsi.  So not a problem to have a default
set of aliases in the .dtsi files.

-Frank




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