Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752977AbbLESHl (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2015 13:07:41 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:38401 "EHLO mail-wm0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751994AbbLESHi (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2015 13:07:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1449292763-129421-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> From: Michal Suchanek Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 19:06:57 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] mtd: partitions: add of_match_table support To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Brian Norris , Boris Brezillon , Arnd Bergmann , Geert Uytterhoeven , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org, Simon Arlott , Linus Walleij , =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jason Gunthorpe , David Hendricks , Jonas Gorski , Rob Herring , MTD Maling List , Hauke Mehrtens Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1613 Lines: 36 On 5 December 2015 at 11:15, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Brian Norris > wrote: >> There have been several discussions [1] about adding a device tree binding for >> associating flash devices with the partition parser(s) that are used on the >> flash. There are a few reasons: >> >> (1) drivers shouldn't have to be encoding platform knowledge by listing what >> parsers might be used on a given system (this is the currently all that's >> supported) >> (2) we can't just scan for all supported parsers (like the block system does), since >> there is a wide diversity of "formats" (no standardization), and it is not >> always safe or efficient to attempt to do so, particularly since many of >> them allow their data structures to be placed anywhere on the flash, and >> so require scanning the entire flash device to find them. > > I read the second reason, but would it be useful to (partially) merge > block/partitions/ and drivers/mtd/partitions/, so I can use e.g. msdos > partitions > on an mtd device?? > Using msdos partition on a MTD device does not sound terribly useful. On what kind of non-block device would you expect to find one? On the other hand, using FMAP on a block device might work an even might have some uses. Thanks Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/