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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: ls1028a: make the eMMC and SD card controllers use fixed indices
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:38:21PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> As the boot order in the kernel continues to change, sometimes it may
> happen that the eSDHC controller mmc@2150000 (the one for eMMC) gets
> probed before the one at mmc@2140000 (for external SD cards). The effect
> is that the eMMC controller gets the /dev/mmcblk0 name, and the SD card
> gets /dev/mmcblk1.
>
> Since the introduction of this SoC, that has never happened in practice,
> even though it was never guaranteed in theory. Setting
> "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" in /proc/cmdline has always caused the kernel to
> use the second partition from the SD card as the rootfs.
>
> The NXP development boards are typically shipped with either
> - LSDK, which uses "root=UUID=", or
> - OpenIL, which uses "root=/dev/mmcblkNp2"
>
> So for OpenIL, let's preserve that old behavior by adding some aliases
> which create naming consistency (for LSDK it doesn't matter):
> - the SD card controller uses /dev/mmcblk0
> - the eMMC controller uses /dev/mmcblk1
>
> For the Kontron SL28 boards, Michael Walle says that they are shipped
> with "root=UUID=" already, so the probing order doesn't matter, but it
> is more natural to him for /dev/mmcblk0 to be the eMMC, so let's do it
> the other way around there.
>
> The aliases are parsed by mmc_alloc_host() in drivers/mmc/core/host.c.
>
> Cc: Ashish Kumar <Ashish.Kumar@nxp.com>
> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
> Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

Applied, thanks.

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