On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the > driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device > tables are for. To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ... though I'd tend to agree that most SPI flash chips are kind of small (so they're mostly just one smallish partition).