Re: [PATCH 1/8] dt-bindings: block: add basic bindings for block devices

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Thu Mar 21 2024 - 15:40:02 EST


On 3/21/24 12:32, Daniel Golle wrote:
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/block/partition.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Partition on a block device
+
+description: |
+ This binding describes a partition on a block device.
+ Partitions may be matched by a combination of partition number, name,
+ and UUID.
+
+maintainers:
+ - Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+
+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.
+
+ partuuid:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
+ description:
+ Matches partition by PARTUUID if present.
+
+ nvmem-layout:
+ $ref: /schemas/nvmem/layouts/nvmem-layout.yaml#
+ description:
+ This container may reference an NVMEM layout parser.

Does the above imply that only systems with a single block device are
supported?

Supporting partition numbers seems unfortunate to me. Partition numbers
will change if the partition scheme changes.

Bart.