Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: ams-delta: Drop board specific partition info
From: Janusz Krzysztofik
Date: Wed Apr 17 2019 - 19:10:07 EST
Hi Aaro, Tony,
On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:40:10 AM CEST Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Janusz,
>
> Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Sun, 24 Mar 2019
> 23:33:44 +0100:
>
> > After recent modifications, only a hardcoded partition info makes
> > the driver device specific. Other than that, the driver uses GPIO
> > exclusively and can be used on any hardware.
> >
> > Drop the partition info and use MTD partition parser with default list
> > of parser names instead. For the OF parser to work correctly, pass
> > device of_node to mtd.
> >
> > Amstrad Delta users should append the following partition info to their
> > kernel command line, possibly by embedding it in CONFIG_CMDLINE:
> >
> > mtdparts=ams-delta-nand:3584k(Kernel),256k(u-boot),256k(u-boot_params),\
> > 256k(Amstrad_LDR),27m(File_system),768k(PBL_reserved).
> >
> > For their convenience, CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS symbol is selected
> > automatically from that board Kconfig if this NAND driver is also
> > selected.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> FYI I am okay with the change but I am waiting for acks before applying
> it.
May we have an ack from you?
If still not convinced with my clarifications, I can add a comment to help text
in Kconfig, either squashed or in a follow up patch, on the requirement of
appending mtdparts parameter to command line. What do you think?
Thanks,
Janusz
>
> Thanks,
> Miquèl
>