Re: linux-next: Tree for June 24 (mtd + of)

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 00:11 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > 3.0-rc4 does not have this build error when I use the .config file with it...
> > however, I think that 3.0-rc4 also does not build ofpart.ko as it should.
> >
> > Looks to me like changes in drivers/mtd/{Kconfig && Makefile} caused this
> > build error.
> 
> The following commit in linux-next appears to be the culprit:
> 
> commit 1a6bc893044b961caae1c5a9c6c2065e608da427
> Author: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
> Date:   Sun May 29 21:32:33 2011 +0400
> 
>     mtd: prepare to convert of_mtd_parse_partitions to partition parser
> 
>     Prepare to convert of_mtd_parse_partitions() to usual partitions parser:
>     1) Register ofpart parser
>     2) Internally don't use passed device for error printing
>     3) Add device_node to mtd_part_parser_data struct
>     4) Move of_mtd_parse_partitions from __devinit to common text section
>     5) add ofpart to the default list of partition parsers
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
> 
> It adds a module_init() call to ofpart.c which does not work the way
> that ofpart.c is linked to mtdcore.o.  Seems like that commit series
> still needs work.

OK, let's ask Dmitry to take a look at this.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)