[PATCH] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card controllers use fixed indices

Y.b. Lu yangbo.lu at nxp.com
Tue Nov 24 02:41:01 EST 2020


Hi Vladimir,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 5:30 PM
> To: Y.b. Lu <yangbo.lu at nxp.com>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>; Leo Li <leoyang.li at nxp.com>; Rob
> Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> devicetree at vger.kernel.org; Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter at intel.com>; Ulf
> Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>; linux-mmc at vger.kernel.org;
> linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; Ashish Kumar <ashish.kumar at nxp.com>;
> Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card
> controllers use fixed indices
> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:04:02AM +0000, Y.b. Lu wrote:
> > Hi Vladimir,
> >
> > I have already upstreamed a patch for all affected layerscape boards.
> >
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shawnguo/linux.git/commit/?
> h=imx/dt64&id=342ab37ecaf8c1b10dd3ca9a1271db29a6af0705
> >
> > Please check whether it works for you.
> 
> Thanks, one can tell that I haven't done my due diligence of checking
> Shawn's tree first. I'll cherry-pick that patch and carry on with my
> work.
> 
> However, the fact still remains that Michael has expressed his opinion
> regarding mmcblk0 vs mmcblk1. Do you think that we could make the
> aliases a per-board option instead of per-SoC? Consider that there might
> even be boards that only use SD card. It would be strange for the block
> device in that case to be called /dev/mmcblk1.

I don't think it's a problem in board dts to define board specific thing, like re-defining alias, and disabling any IP it not using.
Thanks.





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