On Tuesday 24 February 2015 20:04:17 Chanwoo Choi wrote: > On 02/24/2015 06:48 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 February 2015 17:52:01 Chanwoo Choi wrote: > >> > >> But, I have a question. > >> If we put the aliases into the board dts file instaed of SoC dtsi, > >> each board dts file may use the different alias name about same phandle. > > > > Yes, that is the idea. In particular with the uarts, the intention is > > that the numbering of the device nodes in /dev is the same that is > > printed on the board (if any), which may be different from the numbering > > internal to the SoC. > > I check the uart device with Exynos5433 SoC based on Linux 4.0-rc1 > If some board use the serial_0 and serial_3 as following in board dtsi, > > &serial_0 { --> UART 0 device > status = "okay"; > }; > > &serial_3 { --> UART 3 device > status = "okay"; > }; > > The serial core driver create the follwoing /dev/ttySACx device node > by using the number of alias. It maintain the same device number of internel to the SoC. > > root@localhost:~# ls /dev/ttySAC > ttySAC1 ttySAC3 > I'm not completely following. So you have set the serial1 alias to the &serial_0 device node and serial3 to &serial_3? Why not use serial0=&serial_0 and serial1=&serial_3? Does the serial0 alias have a special meaning? Arnd -- 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