From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: "Matthew L. Creech" <mlcreech@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: NAND partition names in DTS must be named "partition"?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:36:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB7FFE9.8050206@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ee96a840909211527g45b47b3fgff907df69fe48666@mail.gmail.com>
Matthew L. Creech wrote:
> I upgraded from 2.6.29 to 2.6.31, and the kernel no longer recognized
> the partitions embedded within my DTS file. I had to revert this
> change:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4b08e149c0e02e97ec49c2a31d14a0d3a02f8074
>
> in order to boot. This code looks like it expects all partitions to
> be named "partition", otherwise they're just skipped. Is there some
> peculiarity in my setup that makes this not work, or is it a general
> problem? I see no major differences between my DTS file and the
> stardard "mpc8313erdb.dts".
It looks like mpc8313erdb.dts needs to be updated.
That, and Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt, which
still says, "Each node's name represents the name of the corresponding
partition of the flash device," and has examples whose names are not
"partition". :-P
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-21 22:27 NAND partition names in DTS must be named "partition"? Matthew L. Creech
2009-09-21 22:36 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-09-21 23:01 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-09-21 23:05 ` Scott Wood
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