On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Brian Norris
<computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi DT maintainers,
>
> It's a bit hypocritical of me, since I've been a slow reviewer as well,
> but... can we get some review on this one? Usually, I'm comfortable
> taking driver DT bindings without your review, but this one is a bit
> more generic and is more far-reaching than the average driver.
Sorry, missed this one. This would be a good one to send to
devicetree-spec to BTW.
> I'm not a big fan of this change, and I don't quite understand why the
> bus driver (the SPI bus, which is a level up from the SPI device / MTD
> node) can specify its grandchildren (see spi-samsung.txt). But given the
That's just an example. I just would change it.
> constraints, I think Michal's solution is OK. And I do agree that MTD's
> ofpart should be bit more specific.
>
> Anyway, a quick look and an Ack/Nak would be appreciated.
Looks fine to me:
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 03:34:08PM -0000, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v3:
>>
>> - rename DT node ofpart -> partitions
>> ---
>> .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt | 68 +++++++++++++---------
>> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
>> index 8e5557d..8c2aff7 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
>> @@ -4,10 +4,16 @@ Partitions can be represented by sub-nodes of an mtd device. This can be used
>> on platforms which have strong conventions about which portions of a flash are
>> used for what purposes, but which don't use an on-flash partition table such
>> as RedBoot.
>> +
>> +The partition table should be partitions subnode of the mtd node. Partitions are
>> +defined in subnodes of the partitions node.
>> +
>> +For backwards compatibility partitions as direct subnodes of the mtd device are
>> +supported. This use is discouraged.
>> NOTE: if the sub-node has a compatible string, then it is not a partition.
>>
>> -#address-cells & #size-cells must both be present in the mtd device. There are
>> -two valid values for both:
>> +#address-cells & #size-cells must both be present in the partitions subnode of the
>> +mtd device. There are two valid values for both:
>> <1>: for partitions that require a single 32-bit cell to represent their
>> size/address (aka the value is below 4 GiB)
>> <2>: for partitions that require two 32-bit cells to represent their
>> @@ -28,44 +34,50 @@ Examples:
>>
>>
>> flash@0 {
>> - #address-cells = <1>;
>> - #size-cells = <1>;
>> + partitions {
>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>> + #size-cells = <1>;
>>
>> - partition@0 {
>> - label = "u-boot";
>> - reg = <0x0000000 0x100000>;
>> - read-only;
>> - };
>> + partition@0 {
>> + label = "u-boot";
>> + reg = <0x0000000 0x100000>;
>> + read-only;
>> + };
>>
>> - uimage@100000 {
>> - reg = <0x0100000 0x200000>;
>> + uimage@100000 {
>> + reg = <0x0100000 0x200000>;
>> + };
>> };
>> };
>>
>> flash@1 {
>> - #address-cells = <1>;
>> - #size-cells = <2>;
>> + partitions {
>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>> + #size-cells = <2>;
>>
>> - /* a 4 GiB partition */
>> - partition@0 {
>> - label = "filesystem";
>> - reg = <0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>;
>> + /* a 4 GiB partition */
>> + partition@0 {
>> + label = "filesystem";
>> + reg = <0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>;
>> + };
>> };
>> };
>>
>> flash@2 {
>> - #address-cells = <2>;
>> - #size-cells = <2>;
>> + partitions {
>> + #address-cells = <2>;
>> + #size-cells = <2>;
>>
>> - /* an 8 GiB partition */
>> - partition@0 {
>> - label = "filesystem #1";
>> - reg = <0x0 0x00000000 0x2 0x00000000>;
>> - };
>> + /* an 8 GiB partition */
>> + partition@0 {
>> + label = "filesystem #1";
>> + reg = <0x0 0x00000000 0x2 0x00000000>;
>> + };
>>
>> - /* a 4 GiB partition */
>> - partition@200000000 {
>> - label = "filesystem #2";
>> - reg = <0x2 0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>;
>> + /* a 4 GiB partition */
>> + partition@200000000 {
>> + label = "filesystem #2";
>> + reg = <0x2 0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>;
>> + };
>> };
>> };
>> --
>> 2.1.4
>>
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