On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:14:12PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> > > This prepares mtd subsystem for the new feature: subpartitions. In some > cases flash device partition can be a container with extra subpartitions > (volumes). > > So far there was a flat structure implemented. One master (flash device) > could be partitioned into few partitions. Every partition got its master > and it was enough to get things running. > > To support subpartitions we need to store pointer to the parent for each > partition. This is required to implement more natural tree structure and > handle all recursion and offsets calculation. > > To make code consistent this patch renamed "master" to the "parent" in > places where we can be dealing with subpartitions. > > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > V5: Introduction of this patch to prepare allocate_partition for further > modification. > V6: Rename "master" in more places including callback functions This patch has some conflicts with l2-mtd.git now. I might end up working them out, but it'd be easier if you'd rebase. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
