From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> This adds support for "linux,root-device" binding that is used to mark root device MTD partition. It's useful for devices using device tree that don't have bootloader passing root info in cmdline. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 07249af4f890..034b06aff660 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include <linux/leds.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> #include <linux/nvmem-provider.h> +#include <linux/root_dev.h> #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h> #include <linux/mtd/partitions.h> @@ -735,6 +736,12 @@ int add_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd) not->add(mtd); mutex_unlock(&mtd_table_mutex); + + if (of_find_property(mtd_get_of_node(mtd), "linux,rootfs", NULL)) { + pr_info("mtd: setting mtd%d (%s) as root device\n", mtd->index, mtd->name); + ROOT_DEV = MKDEV(MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR, mtd->index); + } + /* We _know_ we aren't being removed, because our caller is still holding us here. So none of this try_ nonsense, and no bitching about it -- 2.34.1