Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH RESEND 6/9] eeprom: Add DS2431 support

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:14:57AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 02:42:59PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:

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Hi,

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:16:39AM -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:

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+U_BOOT_DRIVER(ds2431) = {

•   .name           = "ds2431",
  

•   .id             = UCLASS_EEPROM,
  

•   .ops            = &ds2431_ops,
  

Do you want to add a .flags = DM_UC_FLAG_SEQ_ALIAS here?

I don't know. I was kind of wondering why U-Boot relies on aliases so much, especially when the Linux DT maintainers are saying that aliases should be avoided entirely, and we'll won't be able to upstream those changes.

Bah. Do you have a pointer to some discussion about this handy?

Rob said this multiple times, but here is an example: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1609.1/00653.html

Maxime