[PATCH V10 0/3] mtd: read partitions compatible prop for "ofpart" type

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Mon Mar 26 04:30:15 PDT 2018


Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2018, 13:10:41 CEST schrieb Rafał Miłecki:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> 
> This patchset provides a proper support for flash device DT node with
> "partitions" subnode using "compatible" property. It's already
> documented in the: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
> 
> We believed that version 7 was ready to go, but soon after landing in
> the linux-next we got a regression report from Peter. Later versions
> takes a safe path by:
> 1) Respecting parsers order as specified in the default/driver-provided
>    list.
> 2) Looking at "compatible" property only when "ofpart" type gets
>    speciied.
> 
> Version 9 was successfully tested by Peter and version 10 just squashes
> two commits into a one.
> 
> I double-checked the code and cannot think of any regression this could
> cause. I also hope this design (roughly discussed with Boris) can be
> acceptable for the mtd subsystem.
> 
> The most important patch from this patchset (1/3) was reviewed by Rob in
> the
> [PATCH V6 1/2] mtd: partitions: add of_match_table parser matching
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/comment/1831551/
> 
> If possible this is a 4.17 material.
> 
> Rafał Miłecki (3):
>   mtd: partitions: add of_match_table parser matching for the "ofpart"
>     type
>   mtd: rename "ofpart" parser to "fixed-partitions" as it fits it better
>   mtd: ofpart: add of_match_table with "fixed-partitions"
> 
>  drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c          | 116
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/mtd/ofpart.c           | 
> 18 +++++--
>  include/linux/mtd/partitions.h |   1 +
>  3 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Series looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>

Thanks,
//richard



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