Re: /aliases node and valid property names

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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:19:06PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I found out about https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/613 and
> in digging a little harder, this is not the first case where 'ethernet'
> has been added rather than 'ethernet0'.  Looking at the spec, it's
> implied (by all the examples) that property names end in a number but
> it's certainly allowable by the way things are worded to not.  Is it
> worth adding any further words here, another example, or just leaving
> everything alone?  Thanks!

Numbers shouldn't be required.  Certainly on old OF-era machines,
aliases called simply 'net' or 'disk' were both common and useful.

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