Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-sabre: Add mmc aliases

From: Detlev Casanova
Date: Fri Nov 11 2022 - 14:35:49 EST


On Thursday, November 10, 2022 9:52:32 P.M. EST Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:18:11AM -0400, Detlev Casanova wrote:
> > If not specified, the mmc0 and mmc1 devices will be the devices
> > mmc@2190000 and mmc@2194000, which are in disabled state on the iMX.6
> > Sabrelite devices.
> >
> > The actual SD card reader devices are the ones at mmc@2198000 and
> > mmc@219c000.
> >
> > Set aliases to use the correct mmc devices order.
>
> Is this something never worked or a regression? For the latter, we may
> need a Fixes tag?

These were apparently never set in the kernel device-tree and added manually
in u-boot when dts are synced.

Because most distributions use UUIDs in fstab, it is not a big problem in
Linux, just that the SD card is called /dev/mmcblk2. I would say that this has
always been an issue in Linux.

> Shawn
>
> > Signed-off-by: Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi
> > b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi index
> > 22f8e2783cdf..12573e1f917c 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi
> > @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ chosen {
> >
> > stdout-path = &uart2;
> >
> > };
> >
> > + aliases {
> > + mmc0 = &usdhc3;
> > + mmc1 = &usdhc4;
> > + };
> > +
> >
> > memory@10000000 {
> >
> > device_type = "memory";
> > reg = <0x10000000 0x40000000>;