[PATCH v2 5/6] mtd: partitions: pass around 'mtd_partitions' wrapper struct

[Boris Brezillon]

On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 01:30:49 +0100
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> How about defining a new function to encourage mtd drivers to pass an
> mtd_partitions structure instead of the parts + nr_parts arguments.
> Note that I don't ask to update all call sites, but only to add a new
> function and transform mtd_device_parse_register() into a wrapper.
> 
> int mtd_device_parse_and_register_parts(struct mtd_info *mtd,
> 					const char *const *types,
> 					const struct mtd_partitions *parts)
> {
> 	struct mtd_partitions parsed = { };
> 	int ret;
> 
> 	ret = parse_mtd_partitions(mtd, types, &parsed, parser_data);
> 	if (!ret)

Should be

	if (!ret && parsed.nr_parts > 0)
> 		parts = &parsed;
> 
> 	if (!parts || !parts->nr_parts) {
> 		/* Didn't come up with parsed OR fallback partitions */
>   		pr_info("mtd: failed to find partitions; one or more parsers reports errors (%d)\n",
>   			ret);
>   		/* Don't abort on errors; we can still use unpartitioned MTD */
> 	}
> 
> 	ret = mtd_add_device_partitions(mtd, &parsed);
>   	if (ret)
>   		goto out;

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