[PATCH V3 1/2] dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: u-boot: allow dynamic subpartitions

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 08:55:14 PDT 2022


On 18.10.2022 17:50, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>
>> U-Boot partition may contain subpartitions. For example Broadcom
>> includes environment data block in the middle of its U-Boot partition.
>>
>> This allows describing Broadcom's U-Boot env data and will allow
>> referencing its NVMEM cell in the future.
>>
>> Reg: 118f3fbe517f4 ("dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: support label/name only partition")
> 
> Pardon my ignorance here, but what is the significance of a "Reg" tag?

That was meant to be "Ref:" and was meant to show commit that introduced
concept of dynamic partitions. I thought it's a new feature not everyone
may be familiar with yet. I thought it may help to review this patch.

If that is pointless though could you Rob just drop those tags while
applying, please? I guess I'll just let you decide.


>> Ref: dd638202dfb65 ("dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: add additional example for qcom,smem-part")
>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>




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