[PATCH v1 08/14] dt-bindings: mtd: relax the nvmem compatible string

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 5:30 PM Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc> wrote:
>
> Am 2022-08-31 23:48, schrieb Rob Herring:
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:44:17PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> >> The "user-otp" and "factory-otp" compatible string just depicts a
> >> generic NVMEM device. But an actual device tree node might as well
> >> contain a more specific compatible string. Make it possible to add
> >> more specific binding elsewere and just match part of the compatibles
> >> here.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd.yaml | 7 ++++---
> >>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > In hindsight it looks like we are mixing 2 different purposes of 'which
> > instance is this' and 'what is this'. 'compatible' is supposed to be
> > the
> > latter.
> >
> > Maybe there's a better way to handle user/factory? There's a similar
> > need with partitions for A/B or factory/update.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean. It has nothing to with
> user and factory provisionings.
>
> SPI flashes have a user programmable and a factory programmable
> area, some have just one of them. Whereas with A/B you (as in the
> user or the board manufacturer) defines an area within a memory device
> to be either slot A or slot B. But here the flash dictates what's
> factory and what's user storage. It's in the datasheet.

Ah, right. Nevermind...

Rob