On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:55:41 -0800, Stepan Moskovchenko <step...@codeaurora.org> wrote: > In some situations, userspace may want to resolve a > device by function and logical number (ie, "serial0") > rather than by the base address or full device path. Being > able to resolve a device by alias frees userspace from the > burden of otherwise having to maintain a mapping between > device addresses and their logical assignments on each > platform when multiple instances of the same hardware block > are present in the system. > > Although the uevent device attribute contains devicetree > compatible information and the full device path, the uevent > does not list the alises that may have been defined for the > device. > > Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <step...@codeaurora.org>
I've picked this up into my devicetree/next branch. It will get pushed out to linux-next after the merge window closes. Thanks, g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
