[PATCH v2 0/3] mtd concat device driver

[Bernhard Frauendienst]

Hi everybody,

when porting my router board from a mach-file based OpenWRT target to a
device-tree based target, I found that there is no generic way to create
a mtd_concat device from within the dts. The following patches attempt
to provide that possibility.

This is a second roll of that patch series, the first one can be seen at
[1]. Apologies for not including the correct recipients in the first
roll.

In this first discussion, concerns were raised that a driver for a
"virtual" device like this might have no place in the device tree
system. However, I would argue that this very similar to specifying the
partitions of a mtd device, which can also done in the device tree. In
fact, I believe this is the only way to be able to specify the
partitions of such a concat device in the dts file (but I'm happy to be
corrected if I'm mistaken).
I have made the example in the dt-binding documentation a little bit
more expressive in this detail.

In this second roll I have also addressed all issues that reviewers have
brought up so far, hopefully to their satisfaction.

Best Regards
Bernhard

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2018-September/083832.html

Bernhard Frauendienst (3):
  mtd: core: add get_mtd_device_by_node
  dt-bindings: add bindings for mtd-concat devices
  mtd: mtdconcat: add dt driver for concat devices

 .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd-concat.txt    |  36 +++++
 drivers/mtd/Kconfig                           |   2 +
 drivers/mtd/Makefile                          |   3 +
 drivers/mtd/composite/Kconfig                 |  12 ++
 drivers/mtd/composite/Makefile                |   7 +
 drivers/mtd/composite/virt_concat.c           | 128 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c                         |  38 ++++++
 include/linux/mtd/mtd.h                       |   2 +
 8 files changed, 228 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd-concat.txt
 create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/composite/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/composite/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/composite/virt_concat.c

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