[PATCH V3 5/5] ARM: bcm2708: instantiate console UART

On 09/12/2012 04:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Wednesday 12 September 2012, Stephen Warren wrote:

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From: Simon Arlott <redacted>

This patch was extracted from git://github.com/lp0/linux.git branch
rpi-split as of 2012/09/08, and modified as follows:

* Modified UART DT node to use a unit-address to differentiate UART node
  names, rather than using different base names "uart0" and "uart1".
  Note that UART 1 (the Broadcom "mini UART") is not yet present, but
  I'm naming the DT node in anticipation that it will be added.

Shouldn't the selection be done using an alias like this?

	aliases {
		serial0 = &/uart at 20201000;
	};

The "differentiate" was more "ensure that node names in DT are unique"
than anything to do with user-visible selection/identification.

I can certainly add the alias if you want, but I don't know what benefit
it will have, since I've never used aliases before.