[PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: uniphier: add ProXstream2 Vodka board support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Oct 23 13:10:01 PDT 2015


On Wednesday 21 October 2015 17:49:12 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Right.  In-kernel drivers can handle it nicely.
> >
> > Also, we can write a device tree that specifies device connection
> > hierarchy like follows.
> > The device names will appear under /sys/ directory and user-land
> > applications can check them.
> >
> > &i2c4 {
> >         demodulator {
> >                  compatible = "...";
> >
> >         };
> > };
> >
> > &i2c6 {
> >          hdmi_tx {
> >
> >                    compatible = "...";
> >          };
> > }
> >
> >
> > I understand that I2C bus number assumption is avoidable,
> > but I am still not fully convinced.
> >
> > Matching /dev/i2c* and the real hardware block ID (this is written in
> > the SoC spec book)
> > makes things clearer, I think.
> >
> 
> 
> Anyway, this version is unacceptable, right?

Sorry for the late reply.

I would not call it unacceptable, just a bit unpleasant. We can merge it
if you cannot come up with a nicer way to do this. It was a good idea
to split to resend the series without this patch, but the replacement
to delete the aliases also doesn't look nice. If we can't come up with
a better way to do this, I'd suggest you re-send this patch and add a
bit more explanation into the changelog as to why you want this to
be done in an unusual way.

	Arnd



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