[PATCH V3 1/3] dt-bindings: mtd: document linux,part-probe property

[Boris Brezillon]

Hi Rafal,

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:40:14 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> 
> Support for this property has been introduced in 2010 with commit
> 9d5da3a9b849 ("mtd: extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the
> parition probe") but it was never documented. Fix this by adding a
> proper description and example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> index fc068b923d7a..1ada70e718b2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> @@ -6,10 +6,17 @@ Optional properties:
>    controller based name) in order to ease flash device identification
>    and/or describe what they are used for.
>  
> +- linux,part-probe: if present, this property should contain a list of strings
> +  with partition probes to be used for the flash device. A role of partition
> +  probe (parser) is to read/construct partition table and register found
> +  partitions. Getting partition table may be platform or device specific so
> +  various devices may use various Linux drivers for this purpose.
> +
>  Example:
>  
>  	flash at 0 {
>  		label = "System-firmware";
> +		linux,part-probe = "cmdlinepart", "ofpart";
>  
>  		/* flash type specific properties */
>  	};