I need Linux to support MTD partitions drivers. They should get probed for MTD partitions, access it, do their stuff. Random example: partitions { compatible = "fixed-partitions"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; partition@0 { compatible = "u-boot,bootloader"; label = "loader"; reg = <0x0 0x100000>; }; partition@100000 { compatible = "u-boot,env"; label = "image"; reg = <0x100000 0x100000>; }; }; (please don't confuse them with parsers which are MTD internals) To support that I added of_platform_populate() calls, see commit bcdf0315a61a2 ("mtd: call of_platform_populate() for MTD partitions"): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bcdf0315a61a29eb753a607d3a85a4032de72d94 The problem I just noticed is it triggers errors like: OF: Bad cell count for /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions It comes from (forward-trace): of_platform_populate() of_platform_bus_create() of_platform_device_create_pdata() of_device_alloc() of_address_to_resource() of_address_to_resource() __of_address_to_resource() of_translate_address() __of_translate_address() OF_CHECK_COUNTS() pr_err() It's caused by "partitions" node having 1 address cell and 0 size cells. It's a consequence of inheriting sizes from NAND CS: nand-controller@1800 { ... #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; nand@0 { compatible = "brcm,nandcs"; reg = <0>; partitions { ... }; }; }; Is that something that can / should be fixed in OF implementation? I don't think I should assign sizes to "partitions" node as it doesn't use "reg" at all. All "reg" in "partitions" subnodes contain flash relative offsets and they should not be translated. [ 4.360609] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions/partition@0 ** [ 4.370814] OF: bus is default (na=1, ns=1) on /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.380130] OF: translating address: 00000000 [ 4.384609] OF: Bad cell count for /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.392859] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions/partition@0 ** [ 4.403069] OF: bus is default (na=1, ns=1) on /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.412384] OF: translating address: 00000000 [ 4.416864] OF: Bad cell count for /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.425110] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0 ** [ 4.433263] OF: Bad cell count for /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0 [ 4.440520] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800 ** [ 4.448044] OF: bus is default (na=1, ns=1) on /bus@ff800000 [ 4.453868] OF: translating address: 00001800 [ 4.458347] OF: parent bus is default (na=2, ns=2) on [ 4.463635] OF: walking ranges... [ 4.467038] OF: default map, cp=0, s=3000, da=1800 [ 4.471967] OF: parent translation for: 00000000 ff800000 [ 4.477521] OF: with offset: 1800 [ 4.480928] OF: one level translation: 00000000 ff801800 [ 4.486390] OF: reached root node [ 4.489874] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions/partition@100000 ** [ 4.500465] OF: bus is default (na=1, ns=1) on /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.509776] OF: translating address: 00100000 [ 4.514262] OF: Bad cell count for /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.522509] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions/partition@100000 ** [ 4.533167] OF: bus is default (na=1, ns=1) on /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.542483] OF: translating address: 00100000 [ 4.546963] OF: Bad cell count for /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0/partitions [ 4.555211] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0 ** [ 4.563362] OF: Bad cell count for /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800/nand@0 [ 4.570620] OF: ** translation for device /bus@ff800000/nand-controller@1800 ** [ 4.578142] OF: bus is default (na=1, ns=1) on /bus@ff800000 [ 4.583967] OF: translating address: 00001800 [ 4.588446] OF: parent bus is default (na=2, ns=2) on [ 4.593733] OF: walking ranges... [ 4.597137] OF: default map, cp=0, s=3000, da=1800 [ 4.602067] OF: parent translation for: 00000000 ff800000 [ 4.607619] OF: with offset: 1800 [ 4.611027] OF: one level translation: 00000000 ff801800 [ 4.616489] OF: reached root node