Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: support label/name only partition

From: Miquel Raynal
Date: Wed Jun 29 2022 - 07:39:03 EST


On Wed, 2022-06-22 at 01:06:26 UTC, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Document new partition nodes that declare only the label/name instead
> of the reg used to provide an OF node for partition registred at runtime
> by parsers. This is required for nvmem system to declare and detect
> nvmem-cells.
>
> With these special partitions, the reg / offset is not required and a
> 'partition-' prefix is needed.
> The node name with the 'partition-' prefix stripped, is used to match
> the partition allocated by the parser at runtime and the parser will
> provide reg and offset of the mtd.
> If the partition to match contains invalid char for a node name, the
> label binding can be used to declare the partition name.
>
> NVMEM will use the data from the parser and provide the NVMEM cells
> declared in the DTS, "connecting" the dynamic partition with a
> static declaration of cells in them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel