Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] of: teach overlay code to keep /aliases in sync

[Abdurrahman Hussain]

On Wed Aug 19, 2026 at 11:17 PM PDT, Herve Codina wrote:
> Hi Abdurrahman,
>
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:15:35 -0700
> "Abdurrahman Hussain" <abdurrahman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...
>  
>> This series is narrowly about overlay-declared /aliases never entering
>> aliases_lookup, so of_alias_get_id() returns -ENODEV and alias-based id
>> pinning falls back to auto-assignment. It reproduces with no mux involved
>> and doesn't depend on your talk.
>> 
>> In v4 I'll drop the "underlying cause" clause; I can keep [2] only as
>> prior-art context or drop it entirely — whichever you'd prefer.
>
> IMHO, the talk describing the DT overlay usage in the lan966x context
> doesn't add any benefit in your use case.
>
> I would drop it but if you prefer to keep it as a reference explaining the
> lan966x use-case, no problem.
>
> Do what you feel is best. 
>
> Best regards,
> Hervé

Hi Hervé,

Sounds good — I'll drop [2] in v4. Thanks for the review.

Best regards,
Abdurrahman