Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] dt-bindings: mtd: document linux,part-probe property

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:37:05 -0700
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:47:44PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> > 
> > Support for this property has been introduced in 2010 with commit
> > 9d5da3a9b849 ("mtd: extend physmap_of to let the device tree specify the
> > parition probe") but it was never documented. Fix this by adding a
> > proper description and example.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> > Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> > index fc068b923d7a..1ada70e718b2 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/common.txt
> > @@ -6,10 +6,17 @@ Optional properties:
> >    controller based name) in order to ease flash device identification
> >    and/or describe what they are used for.
> >  
> > +- linux,part-probe: if present, this property should contain a list of strings
> > +  with partition probes to be used for the flash device. A role of partition
> > +  probe (parser) is to read/construct partition table and register found
> > +  partitions. Getting partition table may be platform or device specific so
> > +  various devices may use various Linux drivers for this purpose.  
> 
> Have you reviewed the old threads about this? I thought I already
> discouraged extending this binding to be generic. Particularly, we do
> *not* want to codify things like 'linux,part-probe = "bcm47xxpart"',
> which doesn't follow any accepted practice about naming. And you've also
> failed to document any actual strings to put here, which hides the fact
> that you're opening a can of worms.
> 
> Piece of a previous thread:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-October/062613.html
> [PATCH] mtd: document linux-specific partition parser DT binding
> 
> I attempted to resolve that here, but never made time to address the few
> not-so-constructive comments I received:
> 
> https://mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1035539.html
> [RFC PATCH 0/7] mtd: partitions: add of_match_table support

Oops, completely forgot you had proposed an alternative solution. Sorry
about that.