Hi On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Rob Herring wrote:
> I'm not sure this is really a good use of aliases. UARTs use aliases > because it is important that the UART number to tty number is known and > fixed. IIUC, as an example you are picking timer1 because it has > properties X, Y and Z. If so, then you should describe those h/w > properties within the timer nodes so you can pick which timer to use > based on it's h/w properties. Some GPTIMER blocks have input and output signals that can be routed to external package balls. So it's possible that some application may need to request a specific timer ID, since that timer would be connected to a specific off-chip device. - Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
