[PATCH v4] mtd: ofpart: document the lock flag.

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 13:34:00 PDT 2015


From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach at gmail.com>

The lock flag of ofpart is undocumented. Add to binding doc.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
It seems my reasoning here [1] was wrong (thanks Sascha!). This is a rewrite of
Michal's binding doc from [2].

Note that this property is still broken for the CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER=y
case.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-October/062822.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-August/061155.html

 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
index 8e5557da1955..a7d4d35550e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Optional properties:
   partition should only be mounted read-only. This is usually used for flash
   partitions containing early-boot firmware images or data which should not be
   clobbered.
+- lock : Do not unlock the partition at initialization time (not supported on
+  all devices)
 
 Examples:
 
-- 
2.6.0.rc2.230.g3dd15c0




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