Re: [U-Boot-Users] [RFC][PATCH] fdt fixup

On 11/3/07, Kumar Gala galak@kernel.crashing.org wrote:

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So, if the aliases node was populated with common names, or if u-boot could auto-populate the /aliases node with enumerated values for things like 'eth#' and 'serial#', then we could do something like this for fixups:

I dont see how u-boot could auto-populate, that seems to defeat the purpose of aliases.

As I said, it *might* make sense. :-)

I'm thinking in terms of if aliases are provided then use them. But that doesn't preclude u-boot assigning aliases to device nodes that don't have them.

Cheers, g.