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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 08:22:59 +0100
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] dt-bindings: block: add basic bindings for
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Hi Daniel,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 08:23:20PM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/block/partition.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/block/partition.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..df561dd33cbc9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/block/partition.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/block/partition.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Partition on a block device
> +
> +description: |
> +  This binding describes a partition on a block storage device.
> +  Partitions may be matched by a combination of partition number, name,
> +  and UUID.
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
> +
> +properties:
> +  $nodename:
> +    pattern: '^block-partition-.+$'
> +
> +  partnum:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description:
> +      Matches partition by number if present.
> +
> +  partname:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
> +    description:
> +      Matches partition by PARTNAME if present.

In the mtd world we originally had the partition nodes directly under
the hardware device node as well. That was changed to put a
partitions subnode between the hardware device node and the partitions.

From fe2585e9c29a ("doc: dt: mtd: support partitions in a special
'partitions' subnode"):

    To avoid conflict with other drivers using subnodes of the mtd device
    create only one ofpart-specific node rather than any number of
    arbitrary partition subnodes.

Does it make sense to do the same for block devices?

Sascha

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