[PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: dts: ti: Add support for J784S4 EVM board

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Nov 21 23:35:10 PST 2022


* Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> [221118 22:12]:
> I don't buy the argument here for 1-1 mapping of aliased serial
> instances to instances - why should main_uart8 be ttyS10, why not
> ttyS8 (it is equally valid - why was it called uart8?).. That mapping
> is just a convention we are choosing to create.

Heh yeah IMO uart8 should be ttyS8.. I agree let's not break the userspace
device names as we've seen what kind of nightmare that ends up being.

Regards,

Tony



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