On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 10:49:53AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> This adds a driver which matches to a "barebox,storage-by-uuid"
> compatible node. The driver looks for a storage device matching the
> given UUID and when found registers a new cdev for the device.
>
> This driver solved a very specific problem. On EFI the storage devices
> are not connected to any device tree node. barebox-state however expects
> a node to use as its backend. The obvious solution would be to create
> a partition with a specific partuuid and use that for state, in our
> special usecase though the storage device is partitioned with a MBR
> which doesn't have any space left to create a new partition. As this
> driver parses the of partition binding we can use that to create
> a partition in an unallocated are of the disk which is then used for
> state.
>
> This driver has the problem that it depends on storage devices which
> are not described in the device tree. This means it cannot work with
> deep probe. This is not a problem on EFI though. It's a special purpose
> driver, it's not recommended for general use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 23 ++++
> drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/misc/storage-by-uuid.c | 199 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 223 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/storage-by-uuid.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
> index 5ab0506cd9..78c9c193d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
> @@ -47,4 +47,27 @@ config STARFIVE_PWRSEQ
> be accessed over /dev/mem or used from kernels which still depend
> on bootloader for initialization.
>
> +static struct of_device_id storage_by_uuid_dt_ids[] = {
> + {
> + .compatible = "barebox,storage-by-uuid",
> + }, {
NAK. Don't add new device tree bindings without adding documentation to
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ :(
Sascha
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