Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757190Ab1FUWw7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:52:59 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:42612 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752125Ab1FUWw5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:52:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <1308410354-21387-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo@linaro.org> <1308410354-21387-2-git-send-email-shawn.guo@linaro.org> <20110618161934.GH8195@ponder.secretlab.ca> <20110619073000.GA23171@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <20110621135558.GB9228@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <4E00F290.2010303@firmworks.com> <4E011678.4030208@firmworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jason Liu , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Sascha Hauer , Mitch Bradley , Jeremy Kerr , patches@linaro.org From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:52:47 +0200 To: Grant Likely X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 18 > Ah, we're having an impedance mismatch. I'm thinking specifically > about the device tree compiler and some syntactic sugar for using the > label definition to generate /also/ create alias properties. The > hairiness is related to that and the way that dtc is implemented, not > with the final aliases themselves. You can generate DTC-style aliases from OFW-style aliases instead (or as well), it has other advantages (like being more readable, and having the aliases grouped together). Segher -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/