Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: sun8i: a83t: Drop leading zeroes from device node addresses

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:22:02PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:22:04PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >> Kbuild now complains about leading zeroes in the address portion of
> >> device node names.
> >>
> >> Get rid of them.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a83t.dtsi | 10 +++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a83t.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a83t.dtsi
> >> index 913aacafe8d5..82cb87f21b96 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a83t.dtsi
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-a83t.dtsi
> >> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
> >>               #size-cells = <1>;
> >>               ranges;
> >>
> >> -             pio: pinctrl@01c20800 {
> >> +             pio: pinctrl@1c20800 {
> >
> > As far as I know this breaks Uboot's auto-addition of stdout-path
> 
> You're right. It breaks as Uboot has the path to the uarts hard-coded.
> That sucks. And from what I can tell, it's not easily solvable by just
> switching to serial alias based references. CONS_INDEX won't line up
> on the A23/A33 Q8 tablets.
> 
> Maybe we can just keep the uart device node the same for now, but fix
> all the other ones. We can come back and fix the uart later once we
> figure out how to fix Uboot.

Thinking more about this, I don't really know why we have that in
U-Boot actually. All our DTs for a very long time have had stdout-path
properly set (and if it's improperly set, this should be fixed). I'd
say we can simply remove that from U-Boot and be done with it.

Maxime

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