2017-06-25 11:12:22

by Rafał Miłecki

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: ABI: mtd: describe "offset" more precisely

From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>

So far Linux supported only two levels of MTD devices so we didn't need
a very precise description for this sysfs file. With commit
97519dc52b44a ("mtd: partitions: add support for subpartitions") there
is support for a tree structure so we should have more precise
description. Using "parent" and "flash device" makes it more accurate.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
index 3b5c3bca9186..f34e592301d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
@@ -229,6 +229,6 @@ KernelVersion: 4.1
Contact: [email protected]
Description:
For a partition, the offset of that partition from the start
- of the master device in bytes. This attribute is absent on
- main devices, so it can be used to distinguish between
- partitions and devices that aren't partitions.
+ of the parent (another partition or a flash device) in bytes.
+ This attribute is absent on flash devices, so it can be used
+ to distinguish them from partitions.
--
2.11.0

2017-07-13 17:56:25

by Brian Norris

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: ABI: mtd: describe "offset" more precisely

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 01:11:54PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
>
> So far Linux supported only two levels of MTD devices so we didn't need
> a very precise description for this sysfs file. With commit
> 97519dc52b44a ("mtd: partitions: add support for subpartitions") there
> is support for a tree structure so we should have more precise
> description. Using "parent" and "flash device" makes it more accurate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>

Applied to linux-mtd.git