[PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6: Remove unneeded address-cells/size-cells

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Sun Nov 12 04:14:23 PST 2017


Hi Christopher,

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Christopher Spinrath
<christopher.spinrath at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> This results in a regression for those devices where U-Boot is supposed
> to inject the partition sub-nodes. For example, this is the case for
> cm-fx6 module based devices like the Utilite Pro.
>
> Linux fails to parse the partitions and reports:
> [    9.330881] spi0.0: error parsing ofpart partition
> /soc/aips-bus at 2000000/spba-bus at 2000000/ecspi at 2008000/m25p80 at 0/partition at 0
> (/soc/aips-bus at 2000000/spba-bus at 2000000/ecspi at 2008000/m25p80 at 0)
> [    9.330887] mtd: failed to find partitions; one or more parsers
> reports errors (-22)
>
> Also, the documentation does not forbid the #address-cells/size-cells if
> no partitions are present.
>
> So, please, drop this patch (or exclude at least the cm-fx6 related change).

Good point! I will resend the patch and will only change the NXP boards.

Thanks



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