On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Brian Norris
<computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There have been several discussions [1] about adding a device tree binding for
> associating flash devices with the partition parser(s) that are used on the
> flash. There are a few reasons:
>
> (1) drivers shouldn't have to be encoding platform knowledge by listing what
> parsers might be used on a given system (this is the currently all that's
> supported)
> (2) we can't just scan for all supported parsers (like the block system does), since
> there is a wide diversity of "formats" (no standardization), and it is not
> always safe or efficient to attempt to do so, particularly since many of
> them allow their data structures to be placed anywhere on the flash, and
> so require scanning the entire flash device to find them.
I read the second reason, but would it be useful to (partially) merge
block/partitions/ and drivers/mtd/partitions/, so I can use e.g. msdos
partitions
on an mtd device??
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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