Hi, On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 05:48:22PM +0100, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > Hi Aaro, > > Thanks for your review. > > On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 2:16:30 AM CET Aaro Koskinen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:37:18PM +0100, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > > > 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 partition types instead. > > > > > > Amstrad Delta users should append the followig partition info to their > > ^^^^^^^^ > > Should be "following". > > > > > 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, select CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS symbol from that board > > > Kconfig automatically if this NAND driver is also selected. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Could we move the fixed partition setup to the board file > > instead? Otherwise this kind of change is not really nice for the users, > > as it will likely break existing setups. The default partition layout > > should remain the same. > > I'm wondering if it would be acceptable to pass partition info from a .dts > file. I think that would be a better, more modern approach than adding a new > header under include/linux/platform_data. Hmm, I thought there was some generic way to define partitions without adding any new headers. But if that is not possible, then I guess your CMDLINE proposal is the preferred one.. A.
