[PATCH] drm: support gpu aliases defined in DT data

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 17/01/19 14:33, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 01:19:18PM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> The DRM device minor numbers are allocated according to the registration
>> order. This causes confusion in cases where the registration order can
>> change, or when, say, a modesetting capable device is preferred to be
>> card0, and a rendering device is preferred to be card1.
>>
>> This patch adds similar functionality that is used in some other
>> subsystems, where device minor numbers can be defined in DT bindings'
>> aliases node.
> 
> What other subsystem? I thought that minor numbers shouldn't be made uapi,
> and that udev or similar is supposed to give you stable names ... Is that
> not the case on SoC?

I think at least i2c, spi and uart use DT aliases.

I also have my doubts about this, but thought to post this to get some
comments, as it does make life quite a bit easier =).

 Tomi

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