Subject: [PATCH v4 2/8] arm64: dts: exynos: Add dts files for 64-bit Exynos5433 SoC

From: [email-masked] (Chanwoo Choi)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:52:01 +0900

On 02/24/2015 05:35 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2015 14:16:45 Chanwoo Choi wrote:
>> +       aliases {
>> +               pinctrl0 = &pinctrl_alive;
>> +               pinctrl1 = &pinctrl_aud;
>> +               pinctrl2 = &pinctrl_cpif;
>> +               pinctrl3 = &pinctrl_ese;
>> +               pinctrl4 = &pinctrl_finger;
>> +               pinctrl5 = &pinctrl_fsys;
>> +               pinctrl6 = &pinctrl_imem;
>> +               pinctrl7 = &pinctrl_nfc;
>> +               pinctrl8 = &pinctrl_peric;
>> +               pinctrl9 = &pinctrl_touch;
>> +               serial0 = &serial_0;
>> +               serial1 = &serial_1;
>> +               serial2 = &serial_2;
>> +               i2c0 = &hsi2c_0;
>> +               i2c1 = &hsi2c_1;
>> +               i2c2 = &hsi2c_2;
>> +               i2c3 = &hsi2c_3;
>> +               i2c4 = &hsi2c_4;
>> +               i2c5 = &hsi2c_5;
>> +               i2c6 = &hsi2c_6;
>> +               i2c7 = &hsi2c_7;
>> +               i2c8 = &hsi2c_8;
>> +               i2c9 = &hsi2c_9;
>> +               i2c10 = &hsi2c_10;
>> +               i2c11 = &hsi2c_11;
>> +       };
>> +
>>
> 
> Can you put the aliases into the per-board files? There might be boards that
> do not support all the uarts and all the i2c controllers but only want to
> provide aliases for a subset of them, without holes in the numbering.

OK, I'm not opposite with you opinion.

But, I have a question.
If we put the aliases into the board dts file instaed of SoC dtsi,
each board dts file may use the different alias name about same phandle.

Thanks,
Chanwoo Choi