[PATCH V2 1/2] mtd: add support for partition parsers

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 27 February 2017 at 10:36, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/21/2017 01:40 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>
>> Some devices have partitions that are kind of containers with extra
>> subpartitions / volumes instead of e.g. simple filesystem data. To
>> support such cases we need to first create normal flash partitions and
>> then take care of these special ones.
>>
>> It's very common case for home routers. Depending on the vendor there
>> are formats like TRX, Seama, uImage
>
> uImage is file format, not partition type. It's just a blob of data
> (usually kernel) with small header, I don't think we should represent
> the content of it as a partition.

You are correct, this isn't any standard container with
subpartitions/volumes. This shouldn't be listed in this commit
message, sorry. I'll drop it in V2.

-- 
Rafał