linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem

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Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 2009 04:54:04 +0400
From:	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 07:16:02PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > 	platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the
> > driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device
> > tables are for.
> 
> To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning
> and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ...

With OF we do partitioning and labling via drivers/mtd/ofpart.c.

Though, so far there is no support for OF partitions in the m25p80
driver. I think we'd better put the OF partitions probing into
parse_mtd_partitions(), and avoid calling of_mtd_parse_partitons()
directly...

Thanks,

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Anton Vorontsov
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