[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ath79: remove unused TP-Link partition parser

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh henrique at nic.br
Fri Apr 24 17:19:28 EDT 2020


On 24/04/2020 16:13, David Bauer wrote:
> On 4/24/20 8:39 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On 24/04/2020 15:09, David Bauer wrote:
>>> This parser was added with the target, but no device seems to use it
>>> currently, as all partitions are specified in the device-tree.
>>
>> But is that a good thing (using the DT), or a bad thing (we should be adapting to the partition table in the device) ?
> 
> This parser does not depend on a partition-map stored on the device
> and instead does assumptions based on the image headers location.

I see. In that case, assumptions are better off being explicit in the 
DT, indeed...

Thanks for the explanation!

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