Re: [RFC RESEND 1/4] arm/dts: OMAP: Add timer nodes

[Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Rob Herring wrote:

> I'm not sure this is really a good use of aliases. UARTs use aliases 
> because it is important that the UART number to tty number is known and 
> fixed. IIUC, as an example you are picking timer1 because it has 
> properties X, Y and Z. If so, then you should describe those h/w 
> properties within the timer nodes so you can pick which timer to use 
> based on it's h/w properties.

Some GPTIMER blocks have input and output signals that can be routed to 
external package balls.  So it's possible that some application may need 
to request a specific timer ID, since that timer would be connected to a 
specific off-chip device.


- Paul
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