[PATCH] arm64: dts: mt8173: add aliases for mt8173 mmc device nodes
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue May 10 00:59:29 PDT 2022
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 9:36 AM Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 1:21 PM Eizan Miyamoto <eizan at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Doing this makes them get enumerated in a deterministic order so that
> > the assigned name in /dev that the mmc devices get assigned is
> > consistent across reboots.
>
> Arnd, one of the soc maintainers asked folks not to do this:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAK8P3a3_uO23Y0tyfdh26tmCVcyp6XM+ur0WUd4khGUoBb32Hw@mail.gmail.com/
>
> and subsequently all mmc aliases for Rockchip were moved to the board level.
Right, please move the aliases into the per-board dts files, and make sure
to only list the ones that are actually connected on a given machine.
> > See ead9f7d7ea9 ("arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Assign numbers to eMMC and
> > SD") for similar work.
>
> I don't know why it didn't happen for Qualcomm though.
It takes a while to get things consistent, need to have another look there.
Arnd
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list