[PATCH V3 1/2] mtd: add support for partition parsers

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 02/27/2017 02:06 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, TP-Link, WRGG & more. All of them are used
> to embed few partitions into a single one / single firmware file.
>
> Ideally all vendors would use some well documented / standardized format
> like UBI (and some probably start doing so), but there are still
> countless devices on the market using these poor vendor specific
> formats.
>
> This patch extends MTD subsystem by allowing to specify partition format
> and trying to use a proper parser when needed. Supporting such poor
> formats is highly unlikely to be the top priority so these changes try
> to minimize maintenance cost to the minimum. It reuses existing code for
> these new parsers and just adds a one property and one new function.
>
> This implementation requires setting partition format in a flash parser.
> A proper change of bcm47xxpart will follow and in the future we will
> hopefully also find a solution for doing it with ofpart
> ("fixed-partitions").
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> ---
> V2: A totally rebased & refreshed version.
> V3: Don't mention uImage in commit message, it was a mistake.

Marek: I updated commit message as you suggested.

Can I ask for your Reviewed/Acked tag, please?