Here are some Sascha Hauer's arguments for using aliases in the dts
files:
- using aliases reduces the number of indentations in dts files;
- dts files become independent of the layout of the dtsi files
(it becomes possible to introduce another bus {} hierarchy between
a toplevel bus and the devices when you have to);
- less chances for typos. if &i2c2 does not exist you get an error.
If instead you duplicate the whole path in the dts file a typo
in the path will just create another node.
Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Cc: Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12873/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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