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

Kevin Hilman khilman at baylibre.com
Mon Mar 8 17:43:35 GMT 2021


Alexander Stein <alexander.stein at mailbox.org> writes:

> 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?

Sorry for the delay.

I somehow missed this v3 at the end of the v5.12 cycle, but I've queued
it up for v5.13 now so it should get broader testing in linux-next now.

Kevin




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