On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:34:37AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Uwe Kleine-König > <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [Rob]: > > >> Like SPI and I2C, I'm against further abuse of aliases for this purpose > >> [1]. > > So what about the usecase for serial ports, where we use this > to make sure the console come out where we want it? Is that > also considered abuse or legitimate use? Note: I'm not trying to be > snarky, I'm trying to understand what is the right and wrong use > of alias. I'm confused about it right now :( I guess it comes down to how ingrained the usage of any numbering is. For consoles, it was pretty important to maintain numbering and no alternative. But now with stdout-path that is less important. Perhaps if you have inittab with tty devices, then it is still needed. So I guess I would summarize the requirement to be only cases needing to maintain numbering for existing userspace. The only users really caring about this have been on N900. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
