> From: Heiko Stuebner <he...@sntech.de> > Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 22:29:33 +0200 > > Hi Kever, Tom, > > Am Dienstag, 23. Mai 2017, 14:32:44 CEST schrieb Kever Yang: > > This is not from kernel, seems the kernel mmc driver does not > > support aliases now, > > > > thought I hope they both support the aliases for ordering. > > there was a lengthy discussion about the pros and cons of ordering > mmc devices last year [0]. > > With the outcome that explicit ordering via aliases is not desired > and the argument being that mmc devices are not so different from > usb storage or scsi/sata devices whose ordering is random all the time.
Aren't you intepreting the outcome of that discussion a bit too broadly tough? That discussion seems to reject an explicit ordering of mmc device names in the Linux kernel, mainly because better mechanisms exist to refer to a particular device than its device name/number. But that doesn't preclude having a meaningful set of aliases for certain boards if there is some sort of canonical boot order or if devices are actually numbered on a board? In OpenFirmware the primary purpose of these aliases is to specify which device to boot from. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
