Re: [PATCH 1/8] dt-bindings: block: add basic bindings for block devices

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 3/21/24 12:32, Daniel Golle wrote:
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/block/partition.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Partition on a block device
> +
> +description: |
> +  This binding describes a partition on a block device.
> +  Partitions may be matched by a combination of partition number, name,
> +  and UUID.
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
> +
> +properties:
> +  $nodename:
> +    pattern: '^block-partition-.+$'
> +
> +  partnum:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> +    description:
> +      Matches partition by number if present.
> +
> +  partname:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
> +    description:
> +      Matches partition by PARTNAME if present.
> +
> +  partuuid:
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
> +    description:
> +      Matches partition by PARTUUID if present.
> +
> +  nvmem-layout:
> +    $ref: /schemas/nvmem/layouts/nvmem-layout.yaml#
> +    description:
> +      This container may reference an NVMEM layout parser.

Does the above imply that only systems with a single block device are
supported?

Supporting partition numbers seems unfortunate to me. Partition numbers
will change if the partition scheme changes.

Bart.