[PATCH v3 1/1] arm64: dts: amlogic: Assign a fixed index to mmc devices

Alexander Stein alexander.stein at mailbox.org
Thu Feb 18 13:09:30 EST 2021


Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2021, 20:28:24 CET schrieb Alexander Stein:
> Recently introduced async probe on mmc devices can shuffle block IDs.
> Pin them to fixed values to ease booting in environments where UUIDs
> are not practical. Use newly introduced aliases for mmcblk devices from [1].
> [1]
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11747669/
> 
> Commit message taken from commit 0011c6d18277 ("arm64: dts: rockchip: Assign
> a fixed index to mmc devices on rk3399 boards.")
> 
> The unconventional order (B, C, A) is due to the fact that sd_emmc_a is
> (according to the comments) only used for SDIO.
> 
> AFAICS all boards either have both sd_emmc_b and sd_emmc_c or only one of
> them enabled. So the alias order should match the previous non-async order
> for all of them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein at mailbox.org>

Any feedback on this?

Best regards,
Alexander





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