On 02/09/2013 11:29 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:

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After all, what happens in some later SoC where you have two different
types of module that feed into the common module, such that type A
sources have IDs 0..3 in the common module, and type B sources have IDs
4..7 in the common module - you wouldn't want to require alias ISs 4..7
for the type B DT nodes.

I forgot to add, any ID remapping could happen in the common module, if
it requires it. Type A and type B sources could have indexes 0...3 and
the common module could derive its configuration from the source ID *and*
the source type. The idea behind aliases was to identify each instance,
rather than providing an exact configuration data that the common module
could use.