Hi Geert-san,
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven, Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 6:58 PM
>
> Hi Shimoda-san,
>
> CC devicetree
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:28 AM Yoshihiro Shimoda
> <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > After the commit 7320915c8861 ("mmc: Set PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS
> > for drivers that existed in v4.14"), the order of /dev/mmcblkN
> > was not fixed, so that we are hard to use the device as rootfs
> > by using a kernel parameter like root=/dev/mmcblkN. So, add
> > sdhi/mmc aliases.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> > ---
> > I'm afraid, but I only tested on r8a77951-salvator-xs.
> >
> > If possible, I would like to apply this patch into v5.10-stable
> > because we are hard to use the device as rootfs as I described
> > the commit description.
>
> Please don't add aliases for various devices.
> You can specify the root file system to mount using PARTUUID= or
> PARTLABEL= (by the kernel), or using UUID= or LABEL= (by an initramfs).
> This is the same for /dev/sd*, which may change after a kernel
> upgrade.
Thank you for the reply! I understood we should not add aliases for
various devices and we can specify the root file system by using other ways.
Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda
