Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: ams-delta: Drop board specific partition info

[Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaro, Tony,

On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:40:10 AM CEST Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Janusz,
> 
> Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Sun, 24 Mar 2019
> 23:33:44 +0100:
> 
> > After recent modifications, only a hardcoded partition info makes
> > the driver device specific.  Other than that, the driver uses GPIO
> > exclusively and can be used on any hardware.
> > 
> > Drop the partition info and use MTD partition parser with default list
> > of parser names instead.  For the OF parser to work correctly, pass
> > device of_node to mtd.
> > 
> > Amstrad Delta users should append the following partition info to their
> > kernel command line, possibly by embedding it in CONFIG_CMDLINE:
> > 
> > mtdparts=ams-delta-nand:3584k(Kernel),256k(u-boot),256k(u-boot_params),\
> > 256k(Amstrad_LDR),27m(File_system),768k(PBL_reserved).
> > 
> > For their convenience, CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS symbol is selected
> > automatically from that board Kconfig if this NAND driver is also
> > selected.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> FYI I am okay with the change but I am waiting for acks before applying
> it.

May we have an ack from you?

If still not convinced with my clarifications, I can add a comment to help text 
in Kconfig, either squashed or in a follow up patch, on the requirement of 
appending mtdparts parameter to command line.  What do you think?

Thanks,
Janusz

> 
> Thanks,
> Miquèl
> 





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