Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: Document new dynamic-partitions node

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 09:26:14PM +0100, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> Document new dynamic-partitions node used to provide an of node for
> partition registred at runtime by parsers. This is required for nvmem
> system to declare and detect nvmem-cells.

So you have some discoverable way to find all the partitions and the 
nvmem cells are at an unknown (to the DT) location, but still need to be 
described in DT?

> Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../mtd/partitions/dynamic-partitions.yaml    | 59 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/dynamic-partitions.yaml
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/dynamic-partitions.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/dynamic-partitions.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..7528e49f2d7e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/dynamic-partitions.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mtd/partitions/dynamic-partitions.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Dynamic partitions
> +
> +description: |
> +  This binding can be used on platforms which have partitions registered at
> +  runtime by parsers or partition table present on the flash. Example are
> +  partitions declared from smem parser or cmdlinepart. This will create an

Some information in DT and some on the cmdline seems broken to me. Pick 
one or the other.

> +  of node for these dynamic partition where systems like Nvmem can get a
> +  reference to register nvmem-cells.
> +
> +  The partition table should be a node named "dynamic-partitions".
> +  Partitions are then defined as subnodes. Only the label is required
> +  as any other data will be taken from the parser.
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    const: dynamic-partitions

This is useless. This tells me nothing about the what's in the 
partitions.

> +
> +patternProperties:
> +  "@[0-9a-f]+$":
> +    $ref: "partition.yaml#"
> +
> +additionalProperties: true
> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    partitions {
> +        compatible = "qcom,smem";
> +        #address-cells = <1>;
> +        #size-cells = <1>;
> +    };
> +
> +    dynamic-partitions {
> +      compatible = "dynamic-partitions";
> +
> +      art: art {
> +        label = "0:art";
> +        read-only;
> +        compatible = "nvmem-cells";
> +        #address-cells = <1>;
> +        #size-cells = <1>;
> +
> +        macaddr_art_0: macaddr@0 {
> +          reg = <0x0 0x6>;
> +        };
> +
> +        macaddr_art_6: macaddr@6 {
> +          reg = <0x6 0x6>;
> +        };
> +      };
> +    };
> -- 
> 2.33.1
> 
> 



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