[PATCH v2 4/9] ARM: dts: rockchip: rv1126: Add i2c2 nodes

Dragan Simic dsimic at manjaro.org
Mon Nov 27 05:07:14 PST 2023


On 2023-11-27 12:10, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Am Montag, 27. November 2023, 11:55:21 CET schrieb Dragan Simic:
>> On 2023-11-27 11:50, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>> > Am Montag, 27. November 2023, 11:43:05 CET schrieb Dragan Simic:
>> >> On 2023-11-27 11:29, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>> >> > Am Montag, 27. November 2023, 10:58:43 CET schrieb Tim Lunn:
>> >> >> On 11/27/23 20:45, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>> >> >>> It's different for mmc, where this naming scheme isn't normally used,
>> >> >>> so we (mostly?) migrated to them being in the board-specific alias
>> >> >>> section.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What about the ethernet alias, the MAC is part of the SoC, should this
>> >> >> stay as it is in patch 6 from this series, or move to board dtsi?
>> >> >
>> >> > I think judging from everything above (and the other modern boards
>> >> > like all rk3588 ones) the ethernet0 alias should move to the board
>> >> > dts(i).
>> >> >
>> >> > The gmac generally does not have this numbering scheme like i2c or
>> >> > uarts.
>> >>
>> >> Please note there's already an Ethernet alias defined in rk3399.dtsi,
>> >> even despite not all RK3399-based devices using the GMAC, for example
>> >> the Pinebook Pro.  Perhaps that's something to be fixed as well.
>> >
>> > possibly :-)
>> >
>> > I guess for starters we shouldn't introduce new instances for it.
>> 
>> Totally agreed.
>> 
>> > All the newer SoCs already have their ethernet alias in the board dts
>> > (rk356x, rk3568) which came after we also moved the mmc aliases.
>> 
>> The base rk3399.dtsi file and the RK3399-based board/device dts(i) 
>> files
>> are fine when it comes to the mmc aliases.  I can move forward and 
>> clean
>> up the Ethernet alias as well, if you agree?
> 
> Yep, we moved mmc aliases a while ago.
> 
> So moving the ethernet sounds like the right way forward. So if you 
> have
> the time for it, then I'd be quite happy to take patches for that 
> change.

Great, thanks.  I'll prepare the patches in the next couple of days, and 
send them over.



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