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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Maxime,

On 14 November 2016 at 13:12, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 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:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:16:39AM -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:
>> > > > +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

Well that's not really an explanation!

- Simon