[RFC PATCH] ARM: dts: imx: replace underscore with hyphen in aliases name

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Fri May 4 01:15:35 PDT 2018


On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:40:25AM +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:58:48AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > It replaces underscore with hyphen in aliases name to fix DTC
> > alias_paths warning below, which is seen with various i.MX board dts
> > files when W=1 switch is on.
> > 
> >  Warning (alias_paths): /aliases: aliases property name must include only lowercase and '-'
> > 
> > Cc: Lothar Waßmann <LW at KARO-electronics.de>
> > Cc: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> > ---
> > Hi Lothar, Gary,
> > 
> > Per my search on kernel code, this change will not break anything on
> > kernel support.  But I'm not really sure about the case of bootloaders
> > running on the boards.  That's why I'm sending it as RFC.
> > 
> > We really want i.MX to be the first-class citizen in the community.
> > After a few cycles efforts on cleaning up DTC warnings, this alias_paths
> > warning is the last one we see with i.MX dts files.  We really want to
> > get rid of it and make i.MX dts be DTC warning free.
> > 
> > So please comment whether we can merge this patch.
> 
> Yes that is fine.
> Reviewed-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>

Thanks, Gary.

Shawn



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