Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:34:59 -0800 | From | Stepan Moskovchenko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] dt/platform: Use cell-index for device naming if available |
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On 11/20/2012 8:19 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > What if instead we added something like OF_ALIASES to the uevent > attribute? Then userspace would have access to all the aliases for a > device. Heck, even a shell script can parse the uevent attribute. There > is also precedence for exporting OF data using a uevent. This is from > the versatile device tree support: > > # cat /sys/devices/amba.0/uevent > OF_NAME=amba > OF_FULLNAME=/amba > OF_COMPATIBLE_0=arm,amba-bus > OF_COMPATIBLE_N=1 > MODALIAS=of:NambaT<NULL>Carm,amba-bus
This sounds like a good idea. I have just sent out a new patch to do this. I followed the OF_COMPATIBLE uevent convention for listing the aliases, but I can follow another convention if someone objects.
Steve
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