[PATCH] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add a few aliases to the PineTab2 dtsi

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Thu Sep 5 04:39:23 PDT 2024


On 05/09/2024 13:32, Dragan Simic wrote:
> Sprinkle a few commonly used aliases onto the PineTab2 dtsi file, to improve
> its readability a bit, to make it easier to refer to the actual nodes later,
> if needed, and to add a bit more detail to some of the labels.
> 
> No functional changes are introduced, which was validated by decompiling and
> comparing all affected board dtb files before and after these changes.  When
> compared with the decompiled original dtb files, some of the phandles in the
> updated dtb files have different values, and the updated dtb files contain
> some additional phandles and additional symbols that come from the introduced
> aliases, but they still effectively remain the same as the originals.
> 
> Suggested-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian at cknow.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
> ---

Unused aliases do not improve readability, so for me this change is
making code worse without valid reason.

Best regards,
Krzysztof




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