Grant Likely wrote:
But finding nodes that meet a criteria *is* what compatible is for and there is precedence for it. All u-boot platforms are finding the node by path right now, and so all of them need to be changed. Changing them to find by compatible that is set per-board or per-SoC makes complete sense to me.
It is ridiculous to have to duplicate code (or create a table, or whatever) just so it can search for mpc8536-foo, mpc8544-foo, mpc8548-foo, etc -- and in the case of the SoC, it's *not* fully compatible, so we *can't* pick one as the "default" -- but it's compatible for the purposes of the code in question.
I figured an alias would attract fewer flames than a compatible of "fsl,immr" (though I'm fine with it -- it's specifying compatibility of device tree binding, not of the hardware).
And no, they're not all finding it by path now -- there's a lot of use of device_type "soc", which is what we're trying to avoid by introducing this alias. The bootwrapper is also affected.
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