On 03/30/2017 11:53 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Support for this property has been introduced in 2010 with commit
> 9d5da3a9b849 ("mtd: extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the
> parition probe") but it was never documented. Fix this by adding a
> proper description and example.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> index fc068b923d7a..1ada70e718b2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> @@ -6,10 +6,17 @@ Optional properties:
> controller based name) in order to ease flash device identification
> and/or describe what they are used for.
>
> +- linux,part-probe: if present, this property should contain a list of strings
> + with partition probes to be used for the flash device. A role of partition
> + probe (parser) is to read/construct partition table and register found
> + partitions. Getting partition table may be platform or device specific so
> + various devices may use various Linux drivers for this purpose.
Why don't you just have partition not within partition node ? Then you
won't need this nonsense ...
> Example:
>
> flash@0 {
> label = "System-firmware";
> + linux,part-probe = "cmdlinepart", "ofpart";
>
> /* flash type specific properties */
> };
>
--
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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