On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:14:47AM +0000, Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way in dts to have alias for a variable just like we have alias
> for node.
>
> For example for a node "abc"
>
>
> alias_comp = "comp-2.0"
>
> abc@3100 {
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
> cell-index = <1>;
> compatible = alias_comp
> reg = <0x3100 0x100>;
> };
>
> Here alias_comp will be replaced by "comp-2.0" during compilation.
That's not really an alias, or like one.
It is more like a named constant / variable. We don't have support
for this, but it is something we'd like to add to dtc eventually.
It's just that no-one has had time to design, implement and come up
with a decent syntax for it.
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