Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/2] fdt: Add fdtdec_find_aliases() to deal with alias nodes

On 01/17/2012 01:20 PM, Simon Glass wrote:

Stephen Warren pointed out that we should use nodes whether or not they have an alias in the /aliases section. The aliases section specifies the order so far as it can, but is not essential. Operating without alisses

Nitpick: aliases

is useful when the enumerated order of nodes does not matter (admittedly rare in U-Boot).

This is considerably more complex, and it is important to keep this complexity out of driver code. This patch creates a function fdtdec_find_aliases() which returns an ordered list of node offsets for a particular compatible ID, taking account of alias nodes.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glasssjg@chromium.org

Acked-by: Gerald Van Baren vanbaren@cideas.com

Thanks, gvb