Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Mar 06 2014 - 09:47:22 EST


> >>> I think you can use aliases to get the order correct, independent of
> >>> how you list them in DT. That should be a lot safer than assuming
> >>> things are instantiated from top to bottom.
> >>
> >> It sounds interesting, how would you do this?
> >
> > As there already is in armada-370-xp.dtsi
> >
> > aliases {
> > eth0 = &eth0;
> > eth1 = &eth1;
> > };
> >
> >
> > eth0: ethernet@70000 {
> > }
> > eth1: ethernet@74000 {
> > }
> >
> > This at least works for i2c devices. The pdev->id is set using the
> > alias number.
>
> Well I think it doesn't work with ethernet devices because we already do
> this in aramda-38x.dtsi:
>
> aliases {
> gpio0 = &gpio0;
> gpio1 = &gpio1;
> eth0 = &eth0;
> eth1 = &eth1;
> eth2 = &eth2;
> };
>
> eth1: ethernet@30000 {
> }
> eth2: ethernet@34000 {
> }
> eth0: ethernet@70000 {
> }

Ah, Erm, O.K.

It seems to be an i2c thing. Take a look at i2c_add_adapter().

if (dev->of_node) {
id = of_alias_get_id(dev->of_node, "i2c");

You could put something similar into the ethernet driver.

Andrew
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