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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Virtual MTD concat device driver
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On Thu,  6 Sep 2018 18:14:10 +0200
Bernhard Frauendienst <kernel@nospam.obeliks.de> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> when porting my router board from a mach-file based OpenWRT target to a
> device-tree based target, I found that there is no generic way to create
> a mtd_concat device from within the dts. The following patches attempt
> to provide that possibility.

May I ask what kind of devices you're trying to concatenate? Are they
of the same type? And finally, I'd like to understand the use case.