Re: Accessing mtd partitions from driver/i2c

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

Hi Prabhakar,

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 05:02:47 +0000
Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushwaha@nxp.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We have a requirement of using(read/write) one mtd partition from driver/i2c. 
> 
> As per my googling  mtd->_read, mtd->_write APIs has not been used anywhere other than driver/mtd layer.

It's used by at least one filesystem (JFFS2). And you should not look
for mtd->_xxx() users but mtd_xxx() users. You should never access the
mtd hooks directly but the wrappers that are exposed by the MTD API
(mtd_read(), mtd_write(), mtd_erase(), ...).

BTW, what's your use case? If it's about reading a piece of information
from a RO partition, then the work initiated by Alban [1] and exposing
some MTD parts are NVMEM providers should be a better match.

> Do we have any such framework/use case available in Linux which can be referred.
> 
> Any pointer/clue will be helpful

I don't know what you want to do with the MTD device exactly, so it's
hard to tell.

Regards,

Boris

[1]https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-mtd/list/?series=35728