2015-10-24 5:16 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>: > On Wednesday 21 October 2015 20:36:28 Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> The user space should not expect that a particular I2C channel is >> always visible through the same character device. >> No reason to fix the I2C indexes with aliases. >> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > As I said in my reply to the earlier mail, I didn't really like the > idea of having holes in the numbering for the i2c controllers, but > this new approach also doesn't look ideal. > > We should have stable bus numbers on any given board, and the aliases > work well for that. I just don't think the aliases need to be stable > between different boards just because they are based on the same > SoC. > > I'd suggest staying with the current slightly awkward approach though, > to avoid regressions. Please send a follow-up patch to add the same > aliases on the new boards and drop this patch, unless someone else > can come up with a better idea. > OK, will do. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada -- 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
