[PATCH 6/6] mtd: ofpart: add compatible check for child nodes
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Thu Jul 18 04:28:58 EDT 2013
On 00:14 Thu 18 Jul , Brian Norris wrote:
> Adding device tree list, keeping patch context
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Josh Wu <josh.wu at atmel.com> wrote:
> > In case that the nand device will support some features like Nand Flash
> > Controller, we want to make the sub feature as a sub node of nand device.
> >
> > Use such organization it is easy to enable/disable feature, also it is back
> > compatible and more readable.
> >
> > If the sub-node has a compatible property then it is a driver not partition.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu at atmel.com>
>
> I just came back to this patch series. I think this patch might be
> deserving of a review by the device-tree mailing list. (It also
> doesn't deserve to die in MTD purgatory.)
>
> BTW, it looks good to me, so:
>
> Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
Rob can take a look on it
Best Regards,
J.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> > ---
> > v3 --> v4:
> > - remove the 'len' parameter, just use NULL.
> > - refine the commit message.
> > - also add a NOTE in devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt.
> >
> > .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt | 1 +
> > drivers/mtd/ofpart.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> > 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
> > index 9315ac9..8e5557d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
> > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Partitions can be represented by sub-nodes of an mtd device. This can be used
> > on platforms which have strong conventions about which portions of a flash are
> > used for what purposes, but which don't use an on-flash partition table such
> > as RedBoot.
> > +NOTE: if the sub-node has a compatible string, then it is not a partition.
> >
> > #address-cells & #size-cells must both be present in the mtd device. There are
> > two valid values for both:
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c b/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
> > index 553d6d6..30fcea1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
> > @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > #include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
> >
> > +static bool node_has_compatible(struct device_node *pp)
> > +{
> > + return of_get_property(pp, "compatible", NULL);
> > +}
> > static int parse_ofpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
> > struct mtd_partition **pparts,
> > struct mtd_part_parser_data *data)
> > @@ -40,8 +44,12 @@ static int parse_ofpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
> > /* First count the subnodes */
> > pp = NULL;
> > nr_parts = 0;
> > - while ((pp = of_get_next_child(node, pp)))
> > + while ((pp = of_get_next_child(node, pp))) {
> > + if (node_has_compatible(pp))
> > + continue;
> > +
> > nr_parts++;
> > + }
> >
> > if (nr_parts == 0)
> > return 0;
> > @@ -57,6 +65,9 @@ static int parse_ofpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
> > int len;
> > int a_cells, s_cells;
> >
> > + if (node_has_compatible(pp))
> > + continue;
> > +
> > reg = of_get_property(pp, "reg", &len);
> > if (!reg) {
> > nr_parts--;
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
> >
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