linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: call of_platform

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Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:00:32 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
Cc:     Tom Rini <trini@...sulko.com>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        u-boot@...ts.denx.de, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: call of_platform_populate() for MTD partitions

On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 14:32:24 UTC, =?utf-8?b?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
> 
> Until this change MTD subsystem supported handling partitions only with
> MTD partitions parsers. That's a specific / limited API designed around
> partitions.
> 
> Some MTD partitions may however require different handling. They may
> contain specific data that needs to be parsed and somehow extracted. For
> that purpose MTD subsystem should allow binding of standard platform
> drivers.
> 
> An example can be U-Boot (sub)partition with environment variables.
> There exist a "u-boot,env" DT binding for MTD (sub)partition that
> requires an NVMEM driver.
> 
> Ref: 5db1c2dbc04c ("dt-bindings: nvmem: add U-Boot environment variables binding")
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>

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

Miquel