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[V3,1/3] dt-bindings: mtd: document linux,part-probe property

Message ID 20170331114016.26858-1-zajec5@gmail.com
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Boris Brezillon
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Rafał Miłecki March 31, 2017, 11:40 a.m. UTC
From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

Support for this property has been introduced in 2010 with commit
9d5da3a9b849 ("mtd: extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the
parition probe") but it was never documented. Fix this by adding a
proper description and example.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
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 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

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Rob Herring (Arm) April 3, 2017, 4:40 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:40:14PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> Support for this property has been introduced in 2010 with commit
> 9d5da3a9b849 ("mtd: extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the
> parition probe") but it was never documented. Fix this by adding a
> proper description and example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Boris Brezillon April 9, 2017, 10:40 a.m. UTC | #2
Hi Rafal,

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:40:14 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> Support for this property has been introduced in 2010 with commit
> 9d5da3a9b849 ("mtd: extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the
> parition probe") but it was never documented. Fix this by adding a
> proper description and example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> index fc068b923d7a..1ada70e718b2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> @@ -6,10 +6,17 @@ Optional properties:
>    controller based name) in order to ease flash device identification
>    and/or describe what they are used for.
>  
> +- linux,part-probe: if present, this property should contain a list of strings
> +  with partition probes to be used for the flash device. A role of partition
> +  probe (parser) is to read/construct partition table and register found
> +  partitions. Getting partition table may be platform or device specific so
> +  various devices may use various Linux drivers for this purpose.
> +
>  Example:
>  
>  	flash@0 {
>  		label = "System-firmware";
> +		linux,part-probe = "cmdlinepart", "ofpart";
>  
>  		/* flash type specific properties */
>  	};
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
index fc068b923d7a..1ada70e718b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,17 @@  Optional properties:
   controller based name) in order to ease flash device identification
   and/or describe what they are used for.
 
+- linux,part-probe: if present, this property should contain a list of strings
+  with partition probes to be used for the flash device. A role of partition
+  probe (parser) is to read/construct partition table and register found
+  partitions. Getting partition table may be platform or device specific so
+  various devices may use various Linux drivers for this purpose.
+
 Example:
 
 	flash@0 {
 		label = "System-firmware";
+		linux,part-probe = "cmdlinepart", "ofpart";
 
 		/* flash type specific properties */
 	};