Re: [PATCH 0/3] Virtual MTD concat device driver

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 22:59:49 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Bernhard,
> 
> On Thu,  6 Sep 2018 18:14:10 +0200
> Bernhard Frauendienst <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > when porting my router board from a mach-file based OpenWRT target to a
> > device-tree based target, I found that there is no generic way to create
> > a mtd_concat device from within the dts. The following patches attempt
> > to provide that possibility.  
> 
> There's a fundamental issue with this patch series: DT is supposed to
> represent the hardware, not how you want to use it, and clearly, your
> concatenated MTD dev is a virtual device, not a real one, so I doubt it
> will pass DT maintainers' review.

BTW, did you consider doing that through the command line?

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