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Date:   Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:39:32 +0800
From:   Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc:     Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
        linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Ashish Kumar <Ashish.Kumar@nxp.com>,
        Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>, Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card
 controllers use fixed indices
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:38:21PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> As the boot order in the kernel continues to change, sometimes it may
> happen that the eSDHC controller mmc@2150000 (the one for eMMC) gets
> probed before the one at mmc@2140000 (for external SD cards). The effect
> is that the eMMC controller gets the /dev/mmcblk0 name, and the SD card
> gets /dev/mmcblk1.
> 
> Since the introduction of this SoC, that has never happened in practice,
> even though it was never guaranteed in theory. Setting
> "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" in /proc/cmdline has always caused the kernel to
> use the second partition from the SD card as the rootfs.
> 
> The NXP development boards are typically shipped with either
> - LSDK, which uses "root=UUID=", or
> - OpenIL, which uses "root=/dev/mmcblkNp2"
> 
> So for OpenIL, let's preserve that old behavior by adding some aliases
> which create naming consistency (for LSDK it doesn't matter):
> - the SD card controller uses /dev/mmcblk0
> - the eMMC controller uses /dev/mmcblk1
> 
> For the Kontron SL28 boards, Michael Walle says that they are shipped
> with "root=UUID=" already, so the probing order doesn't matter, but it
> is more natural to him for /dev/mmcblk0 to be the eMMC, so let's do it
> the other way around there.
> 
> The aliases are parsed by mmc_alloc_host() in drivers/mmc/core/host.c.
> 
> Cc: Ashish Kumar <Ashish.Kumar@nxp.com>
> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
> Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

Applied, thanks.