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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: Passing NAND mtdparts to OMAP2+ Kernel
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+Roger and Enrico

On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:43:01 -0500
Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com> wrote:

> I posted this on the linux-omap list, and I was asked to post this on
> the linux-mtd list:
> 
> 
> I tried to remove the MTD partitions from the Linux device tree, and I
> noticed that there was no partition information being pushed anymore
> unless I changed the mtdparts name in U-Boot.
> 
> It appears as if the MTD drivers have changed a bit.  I found a few
> e-mails floating around that attempt to fix this
> 
> Commit f7a8e38f07a17be907585 ("mtd: nand: assign reasonable default
> name for NAND drivers") attempts to address this, and someone over at
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/707065/ attempted to address it as
> well in a slightly different way.

Can you test the patch and let me know if solves the problem. If it
does, I'll send a clean version of the patch and queue it for 4.12.

Thanks,

Boris