linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: ABI: mtd: describe "offset" more precisely

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:56:20 -0700
From:   Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:     Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...ev4u.fr>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: ABI: mtd: describe "offset" more precisely

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 01:11:54PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
> 
> So far Linux supported only two levels of MTD devices so we didn't need
> a very precise description for this sysfs file. With commit
> 97519dc52b44a ("mtd: partitions: add support for subpartitions") there
> is support for a tree structure so we should have more precise
> description. Using "parent" and "flash device" makes it more accurate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>

Applied to linux-mtd.git