Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] arm64: dts: google: Add initial dts for frankel/blazer/mustang
Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
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On 19/08/2026 00:13, Doug Anderson wrote: > I did some digging. As far as I can tell: > > * Nothing in the DeviceTree specification 0.4 [1] mentions that > aliases are deprecated. > > * Nothing in the dt-schema repository [2] causes validation to fail > when you use new aliases and there is no "allowlist" of old aliases > that are allowed for historical reasons. > > * There is a single reference in the kernel "Documentation/devicetree" > about not using aliases to assign an "instance ID" [3]. No. The rule is saying: Do not add instance index properties OR custom OF aliases. Logical "OR" means here that for you this sentence is equal to: "Do not add custom OF aliases." It's true though that you did not add custom OF alias, but a generic alias, yet you did not explain anywhere what this generic alias means as an ABI. Best regards, Krzysztof