Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number.

[Christer Weinigel]

On 05/27/2016 08:36 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> Personally the way I parse this situation is that the kernel is taking 
> a look at what's in the DT and making an effort to present it usefully 
> in the running systems. Fixing our current interpretation in stone as 
> a supported thing when we don't have to makes it more cumbersome to 
> improve and discourages any efforts to do similar things in the 
> future. It is reasonable to provide and document something here but 
> when there's some fairly simple and obvious better things we could be 
> doing it should be those rather than the legacy stuff. 

So what are the "simple and obvious better things" that one can use instead?

  /Christer

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