On 02/06/2013 12:21 PM, Rajendra Nayak wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2013 08:22 PM, Roger Quadros wrote: >> Doesn't look very elegant to me, but I wouldn't mind if there is no better >> option. >> Even then, we can't rely on the device name as its index can change based on >> where it is > > Well, thats what I said in the first mail, that *if* you are able to > fix the device name, *then* we could use clkdev the way its used in > non-DT case. But then you came back saying 'Fixing the device name > doesn't really solve the problem.' :)
It does, yes, but depending on fixed device names is not so great for DT, is it? Doesn't solve the problem in the right sense :) > >> located in the dts file. e.g. in the beginning it may be named phy.8, and if >> a device >> node is added before it, it will get changed to phy.9 > > If you provide a phandle to the PHY node in the board node, for which > you need to add the clk alias, you can always extract the device (using > of_find_device_by_node() ) and hence its name, so it doesn't matter if > its phy.8 or phy.9. Right, I'll come up with something on these lines. Thanks for the suggestions :). cheers, -roger _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
