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

Y.b. Lu yangbo.lu at nxp.com
Mon Nov 30 21:38:33 EST 2020


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 10:29 PM
> To: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
> Cc: Y.b. Lu <yangbo.lu at nxp.com>; Vladimir Oltean
> <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>; 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>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card
> controllers use fixed indices
> 
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> > We are going cirlces here. I guess Shawn (as the soc maintainer) has to
> > step in and decide if a common soc include should contain aliases for
> > nodes which are disabled. That is what it boils down to.
> >
> > All other arguments against having aliases in the common include can be
> > found in this thread.
> >
> > > Distros, bootloaders, and users' cases using fixed index before could
> > > avoid issues, and been used as they were.
> >
> > Nobody argue against having these alias. We are arguing against having
> > them in the common soc include.
> 
> 342ab37ecaf8 ("arm64: dts: freescale: use fixed index mmcN for
> layerscape") is dropped from my tree.

Ok, fine. Let me send board dts patches for NXP development boards instead.
Thanks.

> 
> Shawn



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