[U-Boot] [PATCH] rockchip: dts: rk3328: add aliases for mmc controller

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:03:23PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
> > Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:29:33 +0200
> > 
> > Hi Kever, Tom,
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, 23. Mai 2017, 14:32:44 CEST schrieb Kever Yang:
> > >      This is not from kernel, seems the kernel mmc driver does not 
> > > support aliases now,
> > > 
> > > thought I hope they both support the aliases for ordering.
> > 
> > there was a lengthy discussion about the pros and cons of ordering
> > mmc devices last year [0].
> > 
> > With the outcome that explicit ordering via aliases is not desired
> > and the argument being that mmc devices are not so different from
> > usb storage or scsi/sata devices whose ordering is random all the time.
> 
> Aren't you intepreting the outcome of that discussion a bit too
> broadly tough?  That discussion seems to reject an explicit ordering
> of mmc device names in the Linux kernel, mainly because better
> mechanisms exist to refer to a particular device than its device
> name/number.  But that doesn't preclude having a meaningful set of
> aliases for certain boards if there is some sort of canonical boot
> order or if devices are actually numbered on a board?
> 
> In OpenFirmware the primary purpose of these aliases is to specify
> which device to boot from.

Rob?

-- 
Tom
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