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

[Boris Brezillon]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:10:41 +0100
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Applied, finally. I'm still convinced putting this information in the
"partitions" node compatible is a bad idea because it adds extra
complexity to something that was already quite complex, but you won!

Note that Rob had comments on [1] that you never answered, so I'm not
even sure when we'll start seeing boards using this infrastructure.

[1]http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/859690/

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