[PATCH v4 4/5] mtd_blkdevs: add option to enable scanning for partitions

Daniel Golle
2022-11-08T23:05:56Z

Add Kconfig boolean CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK_PARTITIONS and enable block
partition parsers on non-NAND mtdblock devices in case it is selected.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/mtd/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
index 796a2eccbef0..12874dec1569 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mtd/Kconfig
@@ -69,6 +69,17 @@ config MTD_BLOCK_RO
You do not need this option for use with the DiskOnChip devices. For
those, enable NFTL support (CONFIG_NFTL) instead.

+config MTD_BLOCK_PARTITIONS
+ bool "Scan for partitions on MTD block devices"
+ depends on MTD_BLOCK || MTD_BLOCK_RO
+ default y if FIT_PARTITION
+ help
+ Scan MTD block devices for partitions (ie. MBR, GPT, uImage.FIT, ...).
+ (NAND devices are omitted, ubiblock should be used instead when)
+
+ Unless your MTD partitions contain sub-partitions mapped using a
+ partition table, say no.
+
comment "Note that in some cases UBI block is preferred. See MTD_UBI_BLOCK."
depends on MTD_BLOCK || MTD_BLOCK_RO

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
index 60b222799871..e6f2e0888246 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
@@ -359,7 +359,9 @@ int add_mtd_blktrans_dev(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *new)
} else {
snprintf(gd->disk_name, sizeof(gd->disk_name),
"%s%d", tr->name, new->devnum);
- gd->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK_PARTITIONS) || mtd_type_is_nand(new->mtd))
+ gd->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART;
}

set_capacity(gd, ((u64)new->size * tr->blksize) >> 9);
--
2.38.1