Re: [PATCH 6/6] mtd: ofpart: add compatible check for child nodes

* Re: [PATCH 6/6] mtd: ofpart: add compatible check for child nodes
       [not found] ` <1372845034-5579-7-git-send-email-josh.wu@atmel.com>
@ 2013-07-18  7:14   ` Brian Norris
  2013-07-18  8:28     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Brian Norris @ 2013-07-18  7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Josh Wu
  Cc: sergei.shtylyov, dedekind1, devicetree-discuss, linux-mtd,
	plagnioj, linux-arm-kernel

Adding device tree list, keeping patch context

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com> wrote:
> In case that the nand device will support some features like Nand Flash
> Controller, we want to make the sub feature as a sub node of nand device.
>
> Use such organization it is easy to enable/disable feature, also it is back
> compatible and more readable.
>
> If the sub-node has a compatible property then it is a driver not partition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>

I just came back to this patch series. I think this patch might be
deserving of a review by the device-tree mailing list. (It also
doesn't deserve to die in MTD purgatory.)

BTW, it looks good to me, so:

Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Brian

> ---
> v3 --> v4:
>   - remove the 'len' parameter, just use NULL.
>   - refine the commit message.
>   - also add a NOTE in devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt.
>
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt          |    1 +
>  drivers/mtd/ofpart.c                               |   13 ++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
> index 9315ac9..8e5557d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partition.txt
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Partitions can be represented by sub-nodes of an mtd device. This can be used
>  on platforms which have strong conventions about which portions of a flash are
>  used for what purposes, but which don't use an on-flash partition table such
>  as RedBoot.
> +NOTE: if the sub-node has a compatible string, then it is not a partition.
>
>  #address-cells & #size-cells must both be present in the mtd device. There are
>  two valid values for both:
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c b/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
> index 553d6d6..30fcea1 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>
>
> +static bool node_has_compatible(struct device_node *pp)
> +{
> +       return of_get_property(pp, "compatible", NULL);
> +}
>  static int parse_ofpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
>                                    struct mtd_partition **pparts,
>                                    struct mtd_part_parser_data *data)
> @@ -40,8 +44,12 @@ static int parse_ofpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
>         /* First count the subnodes */
>         pp = NULL;
>         nr_parts = 0;
> -       while ((pp = of_get_next_child(node, pp)))
> +       while ((pp = of_get_next_child(node, pp))) {
> +               if (node_has_compatible(pp))
> +                       continue;
> +
>                 nr_parts++;
> +       }
>
>         if (nr_parts == 0)
>                 return 0;
> @@ -57,6 +65,9 @@ static int parse_ofpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
>                 int len;
>                 int a_cells, s_cells;
>
> +               if (node_has_compatible(pp))
> +                       continue;
> +
>                 reg = of_get_property(pp, "reg", &len);
>                 if (!reg) {
>                         nr_parts--;
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>

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