On 11/2/07, Kumar Gala galak@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
Possibly true; but I am concerned that it just trades one fragile method (strict path) for another (expected differences between nodes for identical devices in the tree)
Yeah, I guess the best one can do is leave it up to the developer to pick the right method. Its not as if we'd get ride of explicit path fixups.
The idea of aliases is looking more and more appealing to me.
Indeed.
It also an area where device_type might actually be a useful property if it is used to auto enumerate devices of the same type. ie. If the dtb doesn't explicitly specify eth* aliases, then u-boot could enumerate them so that generic fixup routines can be used and so Linux (or other OS) can use the same device numbering as u-boot.
Cheers, g.