[PATCH 08/18] fsmc/nand: Add support for default partitions for several NAND devices

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 08:45:42 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 13:39 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Linus Walleij
> <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Armando Visconti
> >
> >> Actually I checked better and I can say that:
> >>
> >>  1. We do have the provision to pass the partitions thru pdata and
> >>     cmdline
> 
> Oh. no, wait. The driver is broken, I just realized:
> commit 0d04eda1430e9a796214bee644b7e05d99cfe613
> "mtd: fsmc_nand.c: use mtd_device_parse_register" broke
> the ability to pass in partitions from platform data and I did
> not realize until now. :-/
> 
> > (...) and I get the default partitions from some SPEAr platform
> > currently,
> 
> This is just because of the above bug.

Yeah, there were many bug-fixes like for this stuff. Please, base your
patch on top of the l2-mtd.git tree:

git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/l2-mtd.git

and add

Cc: stable at kernel.org [3.2+]

Thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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