As noted here [1], there are potentially future conflicts if we try to
use MTD's "partitions" subnode to describe anything besides just the
fixed-in-the-device-tree partitions currently described in this
document. Particularly, there was a proposal to use this node for the
AFS parser too.
It can pose a (small) problem to try to differentiate the following
nodes:
// using binding as currently specified
partitions {
#address-cells = <x>;
#size-cells = <y>;
partition@0 {
...;
};
};
and
// proposed future binding
partitions {
compatible = "arm,arm-flash-structure";
};
It's especially difficult if other uses of this node start having
subnodes.
So, since the "partitions" node is new in v4.4, let's fixup the binding
before release so that it requires a compatible property, so it's much
clearer to distinguish. e.g.:
// proposed
partitions {
compatible = "fixed-partitions";
#address-cells = <x>;
#size-cells = <y>;
partition@0 {
...;
};
};
[1] Subject: "mtd: create a partition type device tree binding"
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20151113220039.GA74382@google.comhttp://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-November/063355.htmlhttp://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-November/063364.html
Cc: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
The lock flag of ofpart is undocumented. Add to binding doc.
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To avoid conflict with other drivers using subnodes of the mtd device
create only one ofpart-specific node rather than any number of
arbitrary partition subnodes.
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
In case that the nand device will support some features like Nand Flash
Controller, we want to make the sub feature as a sub node of nand device.
Use such organization it is easy to enable/disable feature, also it is back
compatible and more readable.
If the sub-node has a compatible property then it is a driver not partition.
Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
[ added a missing newline -Brian ]
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Previously, partitions were limited to less than 4 GiB in size because
the address and size were read as 32-bit values. Add support for 64-bit
values to support devices of 4 GiB and larger.
Signed-off-by: Joe Schaack <jschaack@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Partitions are described in the same way for all mtd devices when using
devicetree, move the documentation to a separate file and add references
to it.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lentin <jm@lentin.co.uk>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
