Re: [RFC] dt/platform: Use cell-index for device naming if available

[Stepan Moskovchenko]

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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